On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 8:13 PM Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 4:01 PM C W <tmrs...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> I'm a long time Matlab and R user working on data science. How do you >> troubleshooting/debugging in Python? >> > > I frequently read tracebacks and think about what's up in the code. > > I also often add print functions or logging - empiricism often beats > theorizing when the problems are weird. > > And once in a while I will use pudb - it's probably a pretty good fit for > a vim user like me, both being curses-based. pdb is sad. There are other > debuggers for Python: > https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonDebuggingTools > BTW, there's a new tool I haven't tried yet, that sounds pretty interesting, especially for newcomers: It's called "friendly traceback" and can be found at https://pypi.org/project/friendly-traceback/ Oh, and of course google search is a terrific tool for deciphering error messages. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
