[Dave Harrison]

I've spent a bit of time looking for a way to search the python-dev archives for topics, but I'm not having much success (unless I want to trawl the archives by hand, month by month).

Is there something I'm missing here ?

Ain't easy. Best trick I know is to add site:mail.python.org python-dev to an ordinary Google search.

Would it be possible for someone to review patch 896011? (it has been sitting in CVS without any feedback for about 4 months now) The patch fixes a few minor bugs in pdb and implements a couple small (but I think useful features--like auto-restart, auto post-mortem modes) The patch also fixes 2/3 of a bug#751124, There are a couple more pdb bugs which I think I could fix, but I'd like to wait until I know the fate of the earlier patch. Many thanks, Ilya ------------------------------------------------------------- Guido van Rossum guido at python.org Fri Feb 6 00:04:28 EST 2004

I was wondering whether I should submit a formal patch for the following pdb enhancements:

1) right now if you do "pdb script" pdb will stop with a confusing

...

<string>(1)?()

and you need to execute "s" before you get to the actual source being debugged, this seems somewhat unexpected and inconvenient

A better way would be to go straight to the 1st line of user's code

If you can fix that, it would be great. Just make sure that the fix doesn't break anything else.

2) right now when the script exits, the debugger exits too, taking with it all the debugging settings (like breakpoints) this seems very inconvenient

Basically the cost of a too early exit is high (as you lose your breakpoints) while the cost of not exiting debugger at all is minimal (you just need to press Ctrl-D to exit when you need it)

So I would think that pdb should not exit on script's exit. (and, say, gdb does not exit when program exits...)

Do these suggestions make sense? Is implementing them likely to break anything else?

Ditto. I don't know what it would break, but you will hve to test this thoroughly.