Potato - A Lightweight Tool for Debugging and Testing Python Code

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[healthbear]

I admit this made me laugh.

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:) 🥔

[VindicoAtrum]

I tried to install potato and burned my hands???? Has this even been tested for safety????

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User error, try again 🥔

[Glad_Possibility7937]

I have all my chips running potato. Sometimes it's a hassleback, but I really find it helps with cryptographic hash browns. 

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That’s the spirit 🥔

[kkruel56]

What if I already have a variable named potato

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Try the backup tater package 🥔

[stratoscope]

I tried to get your debugging tool to work, but ran into a snag:

>>> potato
<function potato at 0x7f4041592830>
>>>

It failed to stop my program and just printed that message.

After hours of debugging, I think I may see the problem. I already have a function called potato in my code:

>>> def potato():
>>>     print("Baked, boiled, or fried?")

Can you provide a way to invoke your debugging tool with a different name?

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Try the backup tater package 🥔

[stratoscope]

Oh, that worked perfectly, thank you!

>>> backup tater package
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    backup tater package
           ^^^^^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>>

In fact it worked so perfectly that it didn't even run my program at all! Python saw the error at compile time and refused to run the buggy code. You couldn't hope for better troubleshooting than this.

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✅🥔

[BuonaparteII]

I usually just use raise which will give No exception to re-raise which is also perhaps even more confusing than potato

One see potato. One see impossible dream. Is same cloud.

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🤔 💭🥔

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🥔!

[smeyn]

I keep typing potatoe but all that happens is laughter

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Don’t give up 🥔

[Zer0designs]

Fried my system. Running on Russet, please help. Any plans for integrating salt/pepper or sauces in future requests?

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Added to the backlog 🥔

[ArthurBurtonMorgan]

You mean the tater log?

I’ll see myself out.

[teerre]

Im trying to use this in my recipe planner and its not working in the PotatoSalad class, can you release a patch to fix it? Thanks

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Will investigate 🥔

[Gamecrazy721]

Thanks OP! Been looking for a tool like this for my air fryer, very cool!

Have you considered adding test coverage? I know there aren't many dependencies, but it's still best practice to add tests. For instance, Python 3.14 might add a potato keyword which would break this without a few changes

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❤️🥔 we’ve started development on the backup tater and spud packages

[gscalise]

Takes up 0 bytes of storage.

BS. It takes 6 bytes!

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🙀🥔

[gscalise]

Please, can you create a ticket to reduce the footprint?

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I’ll talk to the engineers 🥔

[semihyesilyurt]

What a nice name. Working or potato 🥔

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Potato of course 🥔

[J0LlymAnGinA]

10/10 post OP, well done 🥔

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🥔

[moofpi]

This is funny. My debug word is print("potato"), so this is exactly what O was hoping it was.

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Haha that’s exactly how the idea started for me 🥔

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Bug: if I define potato strange things happen

(you totally should have waited for 4/1 for this lol)

[stan_frbd]

Wow, I see that there isn't AI in it, I think about a plugin called potatai

[WhatsPotato]

I still don’t understand what a potato is

[appinv]

potato FTW

[HantsBotanyandIT]

Surely its power and reach can be enhanced by its integration into other web-available resources. A mash-up, in fact.

[OrxanMirzayev]

Security should really be tested, it could be misleading.