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Message: [QUOTE="R. Bernstein, post: 1857415"] I am sorry if this was a bit of an exaggeration. Whatever. Some of us may have to *read* a lot of python. (For example I know many people including myself who have had to deal with code written by consultants who wrote a *lot* of code but are no longer *maintaining* the code for various reasons). And one place debuggers tend to come in handy is in focused or problem-solving of others' code. Sometimes the problem is not a bug which produces as backtrace. It could be a misunderstanding of the intended behavior of the code. If you have a good understanding of the code that may be a good thing. If you don't and debugging is easy (and I think someone else had suggested python may be in some circumstances lacking here), then debugging is desireable. I've noticed that different people pefer different things. And that's why there's race-track betting. It would be simple-minded to assert that everyone who writes python code works uses your tools or writes code as easy to understand as you imply your code is. I guess you are in agreement with many POSIX shell (e.g bash, Bourne and Korn) developers. You see, before I wrote a debugger for bash ([URL]http://bashdb.sourceforge.net[/URL]) there just weren't any such things. :-) And those languages are very very old maybe 20 years or so. Understood. I may have missed something here or wasn't clear - I wasn't necessarily soliciting help for people to volunteer on this although of course I would welcome any contributions. Are you the author of pdb.py or a contributer to it? Thanks! [/QUOTE]

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