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		hwayne on July 25, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Python: Overlooked core functionalities A couple people already pointed out that you can write `breakpoint()` instead of using `pdb.set_trace()`. Here's one more trick: you can use `pdb` to run scripts! `python -m pdb foo.py` will run `foo.py` but trigger a breakpoint on the first error.

erikvdven on July 25, 2023 | [–]

That is definitely a neat one! If you are ok with it, I might add that one. I just updated the article already with some of the great comments and tips I recieved over here.

tomtom1337 on July 25, 2023 | [–]

Oh! Thats a really nice one!

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