[Python-Dev] PEP 559 - built-in noop()

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Sun Sep 10 21:03:58 EDT 2017


On Sep 10, 2017, at 14:39, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> As a language change, definitely not. But I like this idea for
> PYTHONBREAKPOINT. You set it to the name of a function, or to "pass"
> if you want nothing to be done. It's a special case that can't
> possibly conflict with normal usage.

I have working code for `PYTHONBREAKPOINT=0` and `PYTHONBREAKPOINT= ` (i.e. the empty string as given by getenv()) meaning “disable”.  I don’t think we also need `PYTHONBREAKPOINT=pass`.

Cheers,
-Barry

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