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What's the modern practical use case for tracing in python? Environments without an IDE/remote debugger?

I can't recall the last time I needed to enable tracing, in the last couple of decades, besides bash scripts.

Originally the question was "What is Honeycomb.io and Opentracing doing and how can I get this into my existing application?" on IRC. On explaining, the discussion went into various directions (Fred Fish C Debugging Macros and tracing Python).

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