RE: Python experiences was Re: Fruit basket program in Boo, Other Script Langs

  • From: "Chris Hofstader" <chris.hofstader@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:51:38 -0400

If the Python assertions are the same as C asserts, they provide a good way
of performing invasive debugging.  They are not a debugger but, rather,
something you can add to your code that, if an expression is true, will send
some text to a console, a dialogue, a debug monitor or some other place
where you can read the output.

Using asserts can really help when you are trying to track down a nasty bug
with no known pattern for getting the symptoms to repeat.  At least in C/C++
the debug level at which you compile your program can also be used to set
the which asserts are turned on and which are not.

 

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[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Greer
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Subject: Re: Python experiences was Re: Fruit basket program in Boo, Other
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I think it means it has a debugger
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From: <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: Python experiences was Re: Fruit basket program in Boo, Other 
Script Langs


> Hi Richard,
> What does this mean in english?
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> Thanks.
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> Jim
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> James D Homme, , Usability Engineering, Highmark Inc.,
> james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx, 412-544-1810
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> "It's more important for me to start to do the right thing than it is to
> wait until I think I
> can do it just right."
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> One more thing in the advantage column:
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> Python, like many other languages, supports assertions.  I am a strong
> advocate of the "Programming as contract" concept as introduced by 
> Bertrand
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> Meyer in the late 1980's in the Eiffel language.  Python supports that
> notion, which can help ensure program correctness.
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> Richard
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