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I love using PDB, but even still this has a different use case. Say you have a bug in a function and it depends on timing or it's a race condition, or it has a lot of statements. Being able to see the state throughout the function in your output may be able to catch things or speed up debugging.

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Agreed. My go-to for debugging is `import epdb;epdb.st()` which is a quick and dirty breakpoint. There may be more elegant solutions but that has served me very well.

True, though pysnooper (and print statements for that matter) will change the execution speed, so won't necessarily catch timing bugs (or introduce new ones).

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