Bugsink Blog: Python

Some Python behaviors are unexpected if you've never seen them. Others still seem unexpected once you’ve spent an hour debugging them…

Here's a typical debugging scenario: you tweak the code, restart everything, but still – no difference. After 3 changes and some head-scratching…

In Python, exceptions can be chained to provide context about what went wrong and why. This is achieved through the "raise ... from" construct…

There are times when you want to log "something interesting" that isn't quite an error, but still something that's interesting enough to get the same rich debugging context. This article shows how.

Explore how Python stacktraces with chained exceptions can become confusing puzzles and solve a few puzzles of your own.

Packaging in Python is full of historical leftovers. This article explains what MANIFEST.in does, why it caused confusion, and why setuptools_scm is usually the better answer.