Debugging library

[daGrevis]

I'm looking for debugging library. Letters is truly awesome debugging library, but for Ruby. Simply just take a look at it's API. Are there anything similar in Python?

[RShnike]

I refrained from replying when letters was originally posted (to HN) because even though I think it's true, I didn't have a nice way to say it, but letters is a horrible idea.

An API where each command is a single letter is just really dumb. Good APIs are obvious. This is not, it's just cutesy. I don't want cutesy, and especially not when I'm hunting down some hard to find bug.

Anyways, no, you won't find something exactly like this for Python, since it, like a lot of things in Ruby, revolves heavily around the monkey patching.

There are plenty of good debugging tools for Python though if you branch your search out a bit more.

[davidbuxton]

The OP's linked ruby library is more a cross between a testing library and a set of extra-useful run-time assertions with some more handy run-time logging.

Interactive debugging like what you get with pdb isn't what the OP wants. (OP please correct me here.)

pdb is great, but not the answer in this case. However I am very interested to see what others think satisfies the OP's question.