[Python-ideas] Debugging: some problems and possible solutions

[Anders Hovmöller]

>> foo(=a, =1+bar)
> 
> Unfortunately, that won't help with Jonathan's inital example
> expression "big_array[5:20]" as it's not a valid keyword.

I didn't understand that. The example you are referring to is

print('big_array[5:20] =', big_array[5:20])

Right?

Nothing is a keyword in that example or in my example. My suggestion is that we could do:

my_func(=big_array[5:20])

And it would be compile time transformed into

my_func(**{'big_array[5:20]': big_array[5:20]})

and then my_func is just a normal function:

def my_func(**kwargs):
     Whatever

It's a very simple textual transformation.

/ Anders


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