How to actually write a program?

[Max M]

Anna Martelli Ravenscroft wrote:

> One other tip: add lots of print statements. Print statements are your
> friend. They can help you figure out what it's *actually* doing, (and more
> importantly sometimes: what it's *NOT* doing) rather than just what you
> hope it might be doing. For example, when you start on defining funcx(a),
> you could start by having it just print what you gave it for arguments.
> You can always comment out or remove the print statements afterwards.

If you intend to use print that way it might be more efficient to write 
a special test print function.


def tp(text):
     TEST = 1
     if TEST:
         print text


That way you will only have to set TEST = 0 to avoid printing debug 
print statements.

regards Max M