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 comes with 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 (when it's something else), are pretty common in Python. Name errors and attribute errors fall in a similar category too.

In this chapter, we will exclusively focus on this lesser discussed aspect of software.

Here is a topic wise listing of...