[Python-Dev] PEP 572: Write vs Read, Understand and Control Flow

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 8:56 PM, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:
> It would actually be quite convenient, and far less error-prone, to
> add a binding construct inside a complicated expression for purposes
> of running under a debugger.  The alternative is typing the
> sub-expression(s) of interest by hand at the debugger prompt, or
> adding print()s, both of which are prone to introducing typos, or
> changing results radically due to triggering side effects in the code
> invoked by the duplicated sub-expression(s).  Adding a binding
> construct wouldn't change anything about how the code worked (apart
> from possibly clobbering a local name).

I thought this was what q was for :-)

https://pypi.org/project/q/

-n

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