On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 6:00 AM Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2020-08-22, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 5:51 AM Eko palypse <ekopaly...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> So the question is, what do I need to read/learn/understand in order to > >> solve this issue? > >> Or in other words, how can I debug my script in an isolated environment. > > > > I'd go for the old standby - IIDPIO: If In Doubt, Print It Out! > > Instead of trying to use a debug harness, just run your code normally, > > and print out whatever you think might be of interest. If you don't > > have a console, well, that would be the first thing to do - you > > *always* need a console. > > Yep. Even if you have to bit-bang a tx-only UART on a GPIO pin. > > I've had to do that many times, and the last time was only a couple > years ago. Though I must admit I never had to do that _in_ Python or > on a platform capable of running Python... >
Haha, yep. That's also why the first "hello world" on any embedded system is also an important tool in itself - if you can make an LED flicker on and off in response to your code, then you have the most rudimentary of print functionality that you can use to debug everything else... ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
