DvG_debug_functions

Provides functions for printing debug information to the terminal output.

dprint()

dprint(str_msg, ANSI_color=None) 

'Debug' print a single line to the terminal with optional ANSI color codes. The line will be terminated with a newline character and the terminal output buffer is forced to flush before and after every print. In addition, if PyQt5 is present in the Python environment, then a mutex lock will be obtained and released again for each dprint execution.

There is a lot of overhead using this print statement, but it is particularly well-suited for multithreaded PyQt programs where multiple threads are each printing information to the same terminal. The dprint function ensures that each line sent to the terminal will remain as a continious single line, whereas a regular print statement will likely result in the lines getting mixed up.

print_fancy_traceback()

print_fancy_traceback(err, back=3)

Prints the exception err to the terminal with a traceback that is back deep, using ANSI color codes that mimic the IPython command shell.

Example output:

Changelog

0.0.1 (2020-05-13)

• First release on PyPI.

1.0.0 (2020-05-14)

• Updated comments.