[Python-checkins] bpo-34231: PYTHONBREAKPOINT is not documented on python --help (GH-8475)

Steve Dower webhook-mailer at python.org
Sun Jul 29 06:27:19 EDT 2018


https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b7fd73896db5666020e382c010b8da900260ede4
commit: b7fd73896db5666020e382c010b8da900260ede4
branch: master
author: Stéphane Wirtel <stephane at wirtel.be>
committer: Steve Dower <steve.dower at microsoft.com>
date: 2018-07-29T11:27:16+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 3a6cf31fc860..8000a1aeb0b4 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"
 "PYTHONPYCACHEPREFIX: root directory for bytecode cache (pyc) files.\n";
 



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