# Port icecream from python?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/port-icecream-from-python/105015
**Category:** Offtopic
**Tags:** debugging, pretty-printing
**Created:** [October 16, 2023, 1:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/port-icecream-from-python/105015 "2023-10-16T13:55:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@user664303](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/user664303)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2023, 1:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/port-icecream-from-python/105015/1 "2023-10-16T13:55:05Z")
I recently came across a Python package called [icecream](https://github.com/gruns/icecream). It allows for quick and easy printing of useful debug info. See [the github page](https://github.com/gruns/icecream) for some examples. You’ll also see (at the bottom) that it has been ported to a large number of languages, but not Julia. Would this be useful in Julia too?
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### Author:  [@adamslc](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/adamslc)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2023, 1:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/port-icecream-from-python/105015/2 "2023-10-16T13:58:31Z")
I’ve only skimmed the README, but I think that most of the features in icecream are already covered by the `@show` and `@info` macros.
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### Author:  [@user664303](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/user664303)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2023, 2:36pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/port-icecream-from-python/105015/3 "2023-10-16T14:36:32Z")
> [@adamslc](#):
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> I think that most of the features in icecream are already covered by the `@show` and `@info` macros.
Thanks. I didn’t know about either of those.
`@show` does indeed perform something similar, though misses the ability to globally switch it on and off and change the formatting.
`@info` requires an input and doesn’t print the line where the call was made. `@warn` does print the line, but requires an input still.
I guess most of the functionality is there. It’s just a few more bells and whistles. Perhaps not worth it.
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### Author:  [@avikpal](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/avikpal)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2023, 2:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/port-icecream-from-python/105015/4 "2023-10-16T14:48:05Z")
You can modify the way things are printed via [GitHub - JuliaLogging/LoggingExtras.jl: Composable Loggers for the Julia Logging StdLib](https://github.com/JuliaLogging/LoggingExtras.jl)