[Idle-dev] idle -h etc

[Grégoire Dooms]

Al Schapira wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 23:11, Kurt B. Kaiser wrote:
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>>The one addition to the debugger I would like is the ability to
>>execute an arbitrary Python statement in any stack frame at a
>>breakpoint. 
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>I second the motion.  In fact, I suggested this to you in April '04. 
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>>What other capability do you feel is missing?
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>The above execution of an arbitrary Python statement at a breakpoint can
>be interactively typed in (when stopped at a   breakpoint.) It should be
>convenient to repeat the execution of the previously typed statement
>without retyping it.
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>Building on this would be the *automatic* evaluation of one or more
>previously entered Python statements every time a breakpoint is hit.
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Interresting ... see my patch for pdb at:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5470&atid=305470&func=detail&aid=790710

It implements breakpoint command lists in pdb with the same interface as
in gdb.
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Grégoire Dooms