pyrogram/docs/source/topics/debugging.rst
Dan 538f1e3972 Deep rewrite: preparing for v1.0
- Pyrogram core is now fully asynchronous
- Ditched Python 3.5, welcome 3.6 as minimum version.
- Moved all types to pyrogram.types
- Turned the Filters class into a module (filters)
- Moved all filters to pyrogram.filters
- Moved all handlers to pyrogram.handlers
- Moved all emoji to pyrogram.emoji
- Renamed pyrogram.api to pyrogram.raw
- Clock is now synced with server's time
- Telegram schema updated to Layer 117
- Greatly improved the TL compiler (proper type-constructor hierarchy)
- Added "do not edit" warning in generated files
- Crypto parts are executed in a thread pool to avoid blocking the event loop
- idle() is now a separate function (it doesn't deal with Client instances)
- Async storage, async filters and async progress callback (optional, can be sync too)
- Added getpass back, for hidden password inputs
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Debugging
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When working with the API, chances are you'll stumble upon bugs, get stuck and start wondering how to continue. Nothing
to actually worry about -- that's normal -- and luckily for you, Pyrogram provides some commodities to help you in this.
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Caveman Debugging
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*The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.*
-- Brian Kernighan, "Unix for Beginners" (1979)
Adding ``print()`` statements in crucial parts of your code is by far the most ancient, yet efficient technique for
debugging programs, especially considering the concurrent nature of the framework itself. Pyrogram goodness in this
respect comes with the fact that any object can be nicely printed just by calling ``print(obj)``, thus giving to you
an insight of all its inner details.
Consider the following code:
.. code-block:: python
dan = app.get_users("haskell")
print(dan) # User
This will show a JSON representation of the object returned by :meth:`~pyrogram.Client.get_users`, which is a
:class:`~pyrogram.User` instance, in this case. The output on your terminal will be something similar to this:
.. code-block:: json
{
"_": "pyrogram.User",
"id": 23122162,
"is_self": false,
"is_contact": false,
"is_mutual_contact": false,
"is_deleted": false,
"is_bot": false,
"is_verified": false,
"is_restricted": false,
"is_support": false,
"is_scam": false,
"first_name": "Dan",
"status": {
"_": "pyrogram.UserStatus",
"user_id": 23122162,
"recently": true
},
"username": "haskell",
"language_code": "en",
"photo": {
"_": "pyrogram.ChatPhoto",
"small_file_id": "AQADBAAD8tBgAQAEJjCxGgAEo5IBAAIC",
"big_file_id": "AQADBAAD8tBgAQAEJjCxGgAEpZIBAAEBAg"
}
}
As you've probably guessed already, Pyrogram objects can be nested. That's how compound data are built, and nesting
keeps going until we are left with base data types only, such as ``str``, ``int``, ``bool``, etc.
Accessing Attributes
--------------------
Even though you see a JSON output, it doesn't mean we are dealing with dictionaries; in fact, all Pyrogram types are
full-fledged Python objects and the correct way to access any attribute of them is by using the dot notation ``.``:
.. code-block:: python
dan_photo = dan.photo
print(dan_photo) # ChatPhoto
.. code-block:: json
{
"_": "pyrogram.ChatPhoto",
"small_file_id": "AQADBAAD8tBgAQAEJjCxGgAEo5IBAAIC",
"big_file_id": "AQADBAAD8tBgAQAEJjCxGgAEpZIBAAEBAg"
}
However, the bracket notation ``[]`` is also supported, but its usage is discouraged:
.. warning::
Bracket notation in Python is not commonly used for getting/setting object attributes. While it works for Pyrogram
objects, it might not work for anything else and you should not rely on this.
.. code-block:: python
dan_photo_big = dan["photo"]["big_file_id"]
print(dan_photo_big) # str
.. code-block:: text
AQADBAAD8tBgAQAEJjCxGgAEpZIBAAEBAg
Checking an Object's Type
-------------------------
Another thing worth talking about is how to tell and check for an object's type.
As you noticed already, when printing an object you'll see the special attribute ``"_"``. This is just a visual thing
useful to show humans the object type, but doesn't really exist anywhere; any attempt in accessing it will lead to an
error. The correct way to get the object type is by using the built-in function ``type()``:
.. code-block:: python
dan_status = dan.status
print(type(dan_status))
.. code-block:: text
<class 'pyrogram.UserStatus'>
And to check if an object is an instance of a given class, you use the built-in function ``isinstance()``:
.. code-block:: python
:name: this-py
from pyrogram import UserStatus
dan_status = dan.status
print(isinstance(dan_status, UserStatus))
.. code-block:: text
True
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