Pdb Quotes

The explosion of the Black Lives Matter movement didn’t take place in a vacuum. It materialized in the midst of the greatest health crisis of the century—the COVID-19 pandemic. And in the United States, the pandemic was being handled with all the proficiency that one might expect to find in a corrupt and dysfunctional regime led by a superstitious, science-defying authoritarian leader of a banana republic who had decided to let the people fend for themselves—and die accordingly. Notices about COVID-19 had appeared in the president’s daily briefings (PDB) as early as January 2020, but, as was usually the case with PDBs, Trump didn’t bother to read them.

TFS has an option to publish all the PDB files from your builds to a shared location, which can then act as a Symbol Server for Visual Studio, enabling you to debug all previous versions of an application without having the source code around.

pdb also includes a postmortem function (pdb.pm()) that you can run after an exception occurs, to get information from the time of the error. See

we were still conducting Oval briefings modeled for President Bush, who wanted to have the articles briefed in detail, absorb the material, and ask briefers questions at the same session. President Obama preferred to read and digest the material ahead of time. There was almost a mystical aura around the PDB, with people apparently reluctant to make changes to it, but I knew we could make better use of the president’s precious time.

To initiate the debugger, all you have to do is import the pdb built-in module and run its set_trace function. You’ll often see this done in a single line so programmers can comment it out with a single # character.