https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/6332de10c7ff703d7f9cef62969aa68e7d2... commit: 6332de10c7ff703d7f9cef62969aa68e7d28d075 branch: 3.7 author: Steve Dower <steve.dower@microsoft.com> committer: GitHub <noreply@github.com> date: 2018-07-29T12:17:49+01:00 summary: bpo-34231: PYTHONBREAKPOINT is not documented on python --help (GH-8475) files: M Misc/python.man M Modules/main.c diff --git a/Misc/python.man b/Misc/python.man index a191cabee84d..3cdf8840d4d8 100644 --- a/Misc/python.man +++ b/Misc/python.man @@ -495,6 +495,9 @@ directory and Distutils installation paths for If this environment variable is set to a non-empty string, Python will show how long each import takes. This is exactly equivalent to setting \fB\-X importtime\fP on the command line. +.IP PYTHONBREAKPOINT +If this environment variable is set to 0, it disables the default debugger. It +can be set to the callable of your debugger of choice. .SS Debug-mode variables Setting these variables only has an effect in a debug build of Python, that is, if Python was configured with the diff --git a/Modules/main.c b/Modules/main.c index 31ebbceb83e0..1f1bf53ed485 100644 --- a/Modules/main.c +++ b/Modules/main.c @@ -144,6 +144,8 @@ static const char usage_6[] = "PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE: if this variable is set to 0, it disables the locale\n" " coercion behavior. Use PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE=warn to request display of\n" " locale coercion and locale compatibility warnings on stderr.\n" +"PYTHONBREAKPOINT: if this variable is set to 0, it disables the default\n" +" debugger. It can be set to the callable of your debugger of choice.\n" "PYTHONDEVMODE: enable the development mode.\n"; static void