am not able to debug my code in python

[rohanag]

[amstan]

You shouldn't be using print statments. stdout and stdin are used with for communication with playgame.py, so any kind of outputting will have to be done differently(like stderr).

playgame.py --help will show you some flags for debugging(to show stderr). I think you want -e and -E.

I'm not sure about the pdb side.

[rohanag]

[bugnuts]

One mistake you can make is to not send a "go" after reading the initial game setup to
let the server know you have done your setup and are set to receive the first turn. I did
that and it was annoying to figure out (though mostly because I did not look in the right place).

[rohanag]

isn't the 'go' part in ants.py, in the ants.run() function? Apart from Ants.run(MyBot()) in myBot.py, do I need to do anything more?

[erdman]

[rohanag]

[McLeopold]

make sure to flush stderr before sending the go

sys.stderr.flush()

[BenJackson]

[McLeopold]

With my bots in python, if I don't flush stderr, playgame and the engine don't pick it up. Someday I'll figure out why.