[Python-ideas] pdb.set_trace may not seem long

[Guido van Rossum]

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 10:45 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Yuval Greenfield <ubershmekel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Proposal:
>>
>> pdb.st = pdb.set_trace
>> -----------
>>
>> I find myself typing this a lot:
>>
>>     import pdb;pdb.set_trace()
>
> How about?
>
>    import pdb.trace

Yuck. An import intended to have a side effect. This also won't work
if pdb.trace was imported before.

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