On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Che M <pine...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > >> I'd like to add to this question and expand it: can anyone point me to > >> a good resource on debugging *generally*? > > The first result on "Debugger tutorial" on google sent me to this: > > > http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~benjasik/gdb/gdbtut.html > > > Though it's for a specific program, it seems to have some good general > purpose advice. > > Personally, I've never had the need for a debugger (maybe because I'm not > writing complicated > > enough programs) - a simple "print" statement (in the right spot) tends > to take care of all of my > > debugging needs. > > That page didn't strike me as very helpful for my case, but thanks > anyway. I'll Google for it, too, but just wondered if any of the > tutors here had any recommendations. I just checked Alan Gauld's > tutorial and I see it doesn't have a debugger section (completely > understandably, as this is sort of advanced). > > I also use print statements a fair bit. I've just heard that using > a debugger is a very useful thing and I thought maybe someone would > have some tips here or knew of a good Python-relevant tutorial about it. > > Thanks, > Che > > > -Wayne > > I did a search for 'python pdb tutorial' and found this resource: http://www.ferg.org/papers/debugging_in_python.html
pdb is the python debugger, this tutorial will give you more than enough to get started. Cheers,
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