gruns/icecream

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

IceCream is a Python library that provides the ic() function as a smarter replacement for print() debugging. It prints expressions alongside their values, pretty-prints data structures with syntax highlighting, and can report execution context like filename, line number, and parent function.

Use cases

• debug python code without print statements
• print variable names and values together
• inspect expressions while debugging
• trace which parts of code execute
• pretty print data structures during debugging
• add quick debug output with file and line numbers

When to choose

• you rely on print() or log() for quick debugging in Python
• you want to see both the expression and its value in debug output
• you need formatted, syntax-highlighted output of complex data structures
• you want a drop-in debug helper that returns its arguments

When to avoid

• you need structured or production-grade logging with levels and handlers
• you want a full interactive debugger like pdb
• your project is not Python

Facets

library · maturity stable

logging developer-tools cli developer-tools python cross-platform print-debugging debugging-tool syntax-highlighting pretty-printing python3 pypy debugging python

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