Swapped to a debugger after 6 months of print statements in Python

I used to litter my code with print() calls to figure out what was breaking, like a dozen lines just to track a single variable. Two weeks ago I finally sat down and learned pdb in an online tutorial after my script crashed for the 80th time. Has anyone else dealt with that stubborn feeling that the old way is fine, even when it clearly isn't?

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mila_reed18d ago

Saw a friend do the exact same thing for like a year straight.

mitchell.nancy17d ago

Spent 8 months doing that before a coworker forced me into debuggers.