<div>I'll say this: I use IDLE exclusively, but I have not looked into any "advanced features". I have always been very minimal when it comes to debugging, so pdb is a saving grace to me. I wasn't aware there was a debugger in IDLE, but as I said I haven't looked too hard. What kind of deficiencies does it have? Does it use pdb or is it completely seperate?
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/7/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tal Einat</b> <<a href="mailto:taleinat@gmail.com">taleinat@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div>On Mar 5 2002, Edward K. Ream posted this on <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://c.l.py/" target="_blank">c.l.py</a>:</div>
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<p><font face="">I am beginning to think that IDLE's debugger suffers from a vicious <br>cycle: <br></font></p>
<p><font face="">1. Nobody uses IDLE's debugger, so <br>2. Nobody complains about its glaring deficiencies, so <br>3. Nothing gets fixed, so (back to one)</font></p></blockquote>
<p></p></font>I think this is still true. I use IDLE all the time, but when I need to debug I just use pdb. This is silly, GUI can make debugging so much better! I think this is the #1 lacking feature in IDLE today, and I would like to get to work at this.
<p>How do you guys feel? Is anyone out there using IDLE's debugger? I'd love to hear what people like / dislike about it.</p>
<p>I haven't much experience with the newer IDEs out there (for .NET, Java, ...), some of which I have heard have good graphical debuggers. I'd really love to hear what people like (or dislike) about other debuggers, to see if such features (or better ones) can be implemented for IDLE.
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