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		FraserGreenlee on Jan 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On Repl-Driven Programming I don’t see how this is different from using the pdb Python module? You can catch exceptions and use to write functions.

hchz on Jan 4, 2021 [–]

The biggest distinction I see is the ability to continue from exceptions.

I find the other differences to be minor in comparison - to be able to recover and continue execution following post-mortem debugging is amazing.

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