[Pythonmac-SIG] pdb (bdb) exception under emacs

[Bob Ippolito]

On Mar 12, 2004, at 4:41 PM, chris at fonnesbeck.org wrote:

> Does anyone develop python using emacs? When I debug a file that calls
> pdb.set_trace(), I get the following:
>
>> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
>> python2.3/pdb.py(992)set_trace()->None
> -> Pdb().set_trace()
> (Pdb)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 148, in ?
>   File
> "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
> python2.3/pdb.py",
> line 992, in set_trace
>     Pdb().set_trace()
>   File
> "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
> python2.3/bdb.py",
> line 52, in trace_dispatch
>     return self.dispatch_return(frame, arg)
>   File
> "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
> python2.3/bdb.py",
> line 80, in dispatch_return
>     if self.quitting: raise BdbQuit
> bdb.BdbQuit
>
> Anyone else seen this? I do not get this behaviour with other  
> platforms,
> so I am thinking it may be a pythonmac issue. Any help is most
> appreciated.

I don't know about emacs, but that is expected behavior if you end a  
set_trace debugging session with ctrl-d, 'EOF', 'quit', etc.  If you  
don't want an exception to be raised, I believe you have to 'continue'  
instead.

-bob