Software Architecture with Python

Chapter 10. Techniques for Debugging

Debugging a program can often be as hard or, sometimes, even more difficult than writing it. Quite often, programmers seem to spend an awful amount of time hunting for that elusive bug, the reason for which may be staring them in the face, yet not revealing itself.

Many developers, even the good ones, find troubleshooting a difficult art. Most often, programmers resort to complicated debugging techniques when simple approaches such as properly placed print statements and strategically commented code would do the trick.

Python has its own set of problems when it comes to debugging code. Being a dynamically typed language, type-related exceptions, which happen due to the programmer assuming a type to be something ...