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Comment by rowanseymour | Hacker News Reader

Since Python 3.7

  import pdb
  pdb.set_trace()

can be written as just

  breakpoint()

That's not entirely true, because `breakpoint` is a more general hook, `pdb.set_trace` is just its default behaviour.

This is, if anything, better. Because that way you can e.g. replace stray `breakpoint()` calls by warnings rather than break production :D

I was told that at my job, but my fingers are so used to type `pdb` and emacs template-replacing it that I can't change.

Configure Emacs to template-replace it with breakpoint()

And this also works with Debugpy so you can actually use a proper debugger and not pdb which is frankly terrible.

Thanks for the tip! :)