Often when I am coding I just like to print little things (mostly the current value of variables) out to console. I don\'t see anything like this for Google App Engine, alth
See https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/requests#Python_Logging and http://docs.python.org/library/logging.html
You probably want to use something like:
logging.debug("value of my var is %s", str(var))