Re: GUI freeze and long blocking operation

[Kip Warner <kip thevertigo com>]

On Sat, 2013-06-15 at 09:54 +0100, jcupitt gmail com wrote:
> I never found the Python debuggers very useful. Event-driven programs
> are not a great fit with traditional debuggers, in my opinion, because
> execution is so non-linear. You are running tiny scraps of code all
> over the place in an order set by an external driver that varies
> between runs.

Totally agree.

> I use an interactive python interpreter to try stuff out, plus a lot
> of logging. For example, I did a music player that pulses a set of
> lightbulbs in time:

Yeah, I all too often find myself having to resort to that as well with
Python.

>   https://github.com/jcupitt/huebert/blob/master/huebert/controller.py

That's so cool. That's a great gadget too.

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