I started using pdb while writing some stuff in #Python, and it's really nice to interact with!

I like that:

You can define breakpoints just using the breakpoint() function, making conditional breakpoints very natural:

if [condition]:
	breakpoint()

You don't need any special invocation to start the debugger - just run the script as you normally would and you end up in a pdb shell when a breakpoint is hit.

In other languages, I slightly dread starting a debug session because I have to remember the flag to pass extra args, add all the breakpoints on startup etc. This leads to long sessions because I don't want to lose the investment I've put into my breakpoints.

But in Python, I have much shorter debug sessions and I can get right to a point of invocation really quickly, verify something, and close the debugger straight away.

It interacts nicely with the repl:

I use the repl much more because I can end up in a repl right with the context and variables that I need.

Defining more breakpoints within the repl is really nice to unpack nested datastructures in the same way it would be done in the code:

>>> for key, some_list in some_dict.items():
... 	for value in some_list:
... 		breakpoint()

I end up writing things in the repl first, but within the context that the code would be written in reality.

It's really thoughtfully designed - thank you to the people who made it so!