As a math person, you’re often faced with the task of communicating about math. Unfortunately, most modern means of communication, be it email, the web or instant messages, aren’t really suited to typing math. Fortunately, however, many of these means do allow the use of Unicode, and Unicode …

I’m happy to introduce PuDB, a full-screen, console-based visual debugger for Python that I recently cooked up.

Or install it simply by typing

easy_install pudb

into your Unix shell. Here’s a screenshot of it in action:

Python has had decent debugging support for a while …