[TIP] pdb, coverage.py, etc... what's the right tool?

[Marius Gedminas]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 12:51:12AM -0700, Colin Kincaid Williams wrote:
> I want to step through a python script with a main method and print
> out everything similar to what is displayed in an interactive python
> session.

There are tools that can show you what statements are being executed,
but I don't think there are tools that can print the results of
expression statements that discard their value.

> Print and use output redirection, or just write it to a file.
> I read on Stack Overflow that I would want to use coverage, but I
> didn't see this use case explicitly in it's docs. Right now I'm
> copying and pasting everything and it's really tedious. Is there an
> easy to use tool built for this?

Nobody mentioned trace yet

  python -m trace --trace yourscript.py

Marius Gedminas
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