[issue5215] change value of local variable in debug

[mproeller]

mproeller <mproeller at googlemail.com> added the comment:

This is the pdb session at the tracepoint in line 4 in the function func
()
So I did the following first:

> c:\test.py(5)func()
-> a = b + 2
(Pdb) p b
13
(Pdb) !b=5
(Pdb) p b
13
(Pdb) n
> c:\test.py(6)func()
-> print a
(Pdb) n
15

I tried to change the value of b but it didn't work, as the
print a statement printed 15, but it should have printed 7
because I set b to 5!!
Then I did the same again:

> c:\test.py(5)func()
-> a = b + 2
(Pdb) p b
13
(Pdb) !b = 5
(Pdb) n
> c:\test.py(6)func()
-> print a
(Pdb) n
7

Note that I changed the value of b to 5 and than didn't print the value
of b and it seems to work as the print statement printed 7.

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