[yt-users] How to turn on Debugging?

[Chris Malone]

Hi Matt,

Thanks for the link - that is what I was looking for, but for some reason
was unable to find...

Chris

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Chris Malone <chris.m.malone at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > It's not very well documented - or at least I wasn't having luck finding
> > mention in the docs - how to properly turn on debugging for yt.  After
> some
> > time digging through the source, I have found that this is handled
> through
> > the *logging* module - a standard module, which I am not (but should be)
> > familiar with.
> >
> > Anyhow, I have gathered that I can turn on debugging by adding the
> following
> > two lines to my ~/.yt/config file:
> >
> > [yt]
> > LogFile = True
> > LogLevel = 0
> >
> > Is this the recommended usage?  Is there an easier way to turn debugging
> on
> > for, say, a single iyt or yt invocation via a command line argument?
>
> It depends on what you want to do.  What you've put in there -- which
> I agree should be better documented -- will turn on debugging
> statements that have been sprinkled throughout the source by the
> developers.  This won't necessarily help out if you have a traceback
> or other error, in which case some of the techniques in "Debugging and
> Driving" might help:
>
> http://yt.enzotools.org/doc/advanced/debugdrive.html
>
> You might also try just running with the "pdb" module:
>
> python2.6 -m pdb your_script.sh
>
> This will put you into a postmortem phase where you can inspect the
> code if an exception occurs.
>
> -Matt
>
> >
> > Chris
> >
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