[Python-checkins] bpo-35835: Add reference to Python 3.7 new breakpoint() function in pdb documentation. (GH-11691)

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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7516f265a8517e4fdc7d6e63d72ae1b57fda26ee
commit: 7516f265a8517e4fdc7d6e63d72ae1b57fda26ee
branch: 3.7
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
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date: 2019-01-30T09:41:51-08:00
summary:

bpo-35835: Add reference to Python 3.7 new breakpoint() function in pdb documentation. (GH-11691)

(cherry picked from commit cf991e653ac550a9f011631447c61ce583404a57)

Co-authored-by: João Matos <jcrmatos at gmail.com>

files:
M Doc/library/pdb.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/pdb.rst b/Doc/library/pdb.rst
index a72876f3f5a8..c7864e9e3f22 100644
--- a/Doc/library/pdb.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/pdb.rst
@@ -76,6 +76,10 @@ at the location you want to break into the debugger.  You can then step through
 the code following this statement, and continue running without the debugger
 using the :pdbcmd:`continue` command.
 
+.. versionadded:: 3.7
+   The built-in :func:`breakpoint()`, when called with defaults, can be used
+   instead of ``import pdb; pdb.set_trace()``.
+
 The typical usage to inspect a crashed program is::
 
    >>> import pdb