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22nd March 2021

TIL Tracing every executed Python statement — Today I learned how to use the Python [trace module](https://docs.python.org/3/library/trace.html) to output every single executed line of Python code in a program - useful for figuring out exactly when a crash or infinite loop happens.

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Posted 22nd March 2021 at 5:51 am

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