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Comment by craftyguy | Hacker News Reader

Isn't this now irrelevant since Pep 553[0] (adding breakpoint()) was introduced in python 3.7?

If not, it's not very clear how this differs from breakpoint().

0) https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0553/

Yes, in Py3.7 which everyone uses by now, although it is very annoying to have to then type "interact" after hitting a breakpoint to actually get to the interactive shell.

This appears to just be a macro for

  code.interact(local=dict(globals(), **locals()))

And it doesn't pretend to be otherwise. But this lib is still a fantastic idea, because that code.interact line is obnoxious as hell to type when you need it and breakpoint doesn't actually get you to the shell.

I mean:

    import pdb; pdb.set_trace()

is totally a thing. And ipdb is even better.

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