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How do you get a function (in Python obviously:) to behave differently when the debugger is active?

import inspect

def isDBG():
for frame in inspect.stack():
if frame[1].endswith("pdb.py"):
return True
return False

Then, just use

if isDBG() :

Confession - the title came out of a joke in "What the Rugby Jokes Did Next" (whose first page said, "You should be ashamed of yourself for picking up a book like this" :

What do a passionate kiss and a spider have in common?
They both lead to the undoing of the fly.