When debugging in PHP, I frequently find it useful to simply stick a var_dump() in my code to show me what a variable is, what its value is, and the same for anything that it contains.
What is a good Python equivalent for this?
10 Answers
To display a value nicely, you can use the pprint module. The easiest way to dump all variables with it is to do
from pprint import pprint
pprint(globals())
pprint(locals())
If you are running in CGI, a useful debugging feature is the cgitb module, which displays the value of local variables as part of the traceback.