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I have been troubleshooting this script for weeks and finally found it was trying to divide by zero.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

IMO there's a place for both. A print statement will reveal a flaw in the programmer's thinking regarding the control flow of the program and the state at that time. If a print statement gives something unexpected, you know exactly where to look in the debugger. If it gives you what you expected, it reveals the problem may be elsewhere