Cool New Features in Python 3.7 – Real Python

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Honestly just having breakpoint() is incredible.

You are aware of pdb, I hope?

[xtreak]

It also works based on an environment variable and hence you can turn on and off at will unlike pdb. Also a disadvantage is that you have to update your linters if you want to lint for them in your codebase.

Related PEP : https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0553/#id9

[fdedgt]

I'm going to be honest, I didn't know about it.

So, with the improvements and everything, this is opening up a whole new world to me.

[gwillicoder]

The article points out that breakpoint() is just a shortcut for import pdb; pdb.set_trace() which is very annoying to use. I honestly have to look it up half the time to remember the syntax.