From b4960530ad83ec0784a78c02a0ac8a40b7ed6adf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vinta Chen Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:54:10 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] audit: sweep Debugging Tools to the shortlist cap Developer Tools audit adjudicated by maintainer 2026-08-16: - removed manhole (1,060,111 downloads/month but last push 2024-07, past the 12-month activity line; also mis-homed under Tracing, it is an inspection socket not a tracer) - removed memory_graph (13,393 downloads/month, added 2025-12 by the project's own author with no displacement argued, teaching aid, fails the obvious-choice bar) - renamed python-hunter to hunter (PyPI package name is hunter; the python-hunter name on PyPI is a squatter) - reordered Others by downloads: django-debug-toolbar 9.1M, icecream 1.95M, flask-debugtoolbar 1.24M Co-Authored-By: Claude --- README.md | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 6ead29ff..1f4a25e3 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -649,16 +649,14 @@ _Libraries for debugging code._ - [ipdb](https://github.com/gotcha/ipdb) - IPython-enabled [pdb](https://docs.python.org/3/library/pdb.html). - [pudb](https://github.com/inducer/pudb) - A full-screen, console-based Python debugger. - Tracing - - [manhole](https://github.com/ionelmc/python-manhole) - Debugging UNIX socket connections and present the stacktraces for all threads and an interactive prompt. - - [python-hunter](https://github.com/ionelmc/python-hunter) - A flexible code tracing toolkit. + - [hunter](https://github.com/ionelmc/python-hunter) - A flexible code tracing toolkit. - Profiler - [py-spy](https://github.com/benfred/py-spy) - A sampling profiler for Python programs. Written in Rust. - [scalene](https://github.com/plasma-umass/scalene) - A high-performance, high-precision CPU, GPU, and memory profiler for Python. - Others - [django-debug-toolbar](https://github.com/django-commons/django-debug-toolbar) - Display various debug information for Django. - - [flask-debugtoolbar](https://github.com/pallets-eco/flask-debugtoolbar) - A port of the django-debug-toolbar to flask. - [icecream](https://github.com/gruns/icecream) - Inspect variables, expressions, and program execution with a single, simple function call. - - [memory_graph](https://github.com/bterwijn/memory_graph) - Visualize Python data at runtime to debug references, mutability, and aliasing. + - [flask-debugtoolbar](https://github.com/pallets-eco/flask-debugtoolbar) - A port of the django-debug-toolbar to flask. ### Build Tools