[Python-ideas] f-string "debug" conversion

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 1:45 PM David Teresi <dkteresi at gmail.com> wrote:
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> print(f'{value!d}') is a lot of symbols and boilerplate to type out just for a debugging statement that will be deleted later. Especially now that breakpoint() exists, I can't really see myself using this.
>

What about when you want to log something without stopping the
program? TBH, I almost never use breakpoint.

> I also don't see the use case of it being within an f-string, because I've never had to interpolate a debug string within some other string or format it in a fancy way. You said it yourself, taking advantage of other f-string features isn't very useful in this case.
>

It's an f-string because f-strings are already compiler magic, so the
ability to display the expression as well as its result is more
logical and plausible.

> If other people can find a use for it, I'd suggest making it ita own function -- debug(value) or something similar.
>

As a normal function, that wouldn't be able to print out the text of
the expression, only the resulting value. If debug(value) could print
out "value: " and the value, then sure, but otherwise, it's not what
this is proposing.

ChrisA