Debugging by starting a REPL at a breakpoint is fun

Hello! I was talking to a Python programmer friend yesterday about debugging, and I mentioned that I really like debugging using a REPL. He said he’d never tried it and that it sounded fun, so I thought I’d write a quick post about it. This debugging method doesn’t work in a lot of languages, but it does work in Python and Ruby and kiiiiiind of in C (via gdb). what’s a REPL? REPL stands for “read eval print loop”. A REPL is a program that: reads some input from you like print(f"2 + 2 = {2+2}") ...

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