[IPython-dev] ipython as a debugger command-line interface?

[Rocky Bernstein]

Ok - thanks for the information.  I'll use that when I get around to it.

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:35 AM, Ville M. Vainio <vivainio at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Rocky Bernstein <rocky at gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > Here's an additional thought along that vein. The way pydbgr gets its
> > commands for the command-line command processor is to import all files in
> a
> > directory, introspect and look for classes that end in "Command" and
> > instantiate each of those. (Now that I write this, better might be to
> check
> > that they are instances of some Command superclass) .  Given this, it's
> > possible to add a feature where users can write their own customized
> > debugging commands and put them in a directory and when you start the
> > debugger point to the directory and have the debugger add those
> additional
> > debugger commands.
> >
> > I throw this idea out as an alternative to ipython way to add "magic"
> > commands. I'm not that familiar with ipython magic commands, but probably
> > that's the way one would add debugger-specific commands in ipython.
>
> You can add magics programmatically through
> _ip.expose_magic("mymagic", callable). So these schemes are not
> mutually exclusive.
>
> --
> Ville M. Vainio
> http://tinyurl.com/vainio
>
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