make tracers tree-pretty-print their contents #2591
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Fixes #1476.
Before this PR, that prints:
After this PR, it prints:
Here's another example:
The same works in
pdb
.One more example!
That shows how
grad
specializes on concrete primal values, but traces the tangents with abstract values, unless of course there's ajit
involved staging out the primal stuff too.JAX is pretty special in that it performs many transformations on-the-fly while it's evaluating user code, rather than first staging things out of Python into some IR and then doing the transformations on that IR. We can take advantage of that to give users better debugging workflows, using standard Python tools (like prints and pdb).
This PR is just a change to the Tracer repr method.