[Python-Dev] pdb enhancements

[Guido van Rossum]

> I was wondering whether I should submit a formal patch for the
> following pdb enhancements:
> 
> 1) right now if you do "pdb script"
> pdb will stop with a confusing
> > <string>(1)?()
> 
> and you need to execute "s" before you get to the actual source being
> debugged, this seems somewhat unexpected and inconvenient
> 
> A better way would be to go straight to the 1st line of user's code

If you can fix that, it would be great.  Just make sure that the fix
doesn't break anything else.

> 2) right now when the script exits, the debugger exits too, taking with it
> all the debugging settings (like breakpoints) this seems very inconvenient
> 
> Basically the cost of a too early exit is high (as you lose your
> breakpoints) while the cost of not exiting debugger at all is minimal (you
> just need to press Ctrl-D to exit when you need it)
> 
> So I would think that pdb should not exit on script's exit.
> (and, say, gdb does not exit when program exits...)
> 
> Do these suggestions make sense? Is implementing them likely to break
> anything else?

Ditto.  I don't know what it would break, but you will hve to test
this thoroughly.

> Thanks,
> 
> Ilya
> 
> PS. I am new on this list and can only hope that the questions are
> appropriate for python-dev

PS.  Use the SF patch manager for submitting patches.  Read
http://python.org/dev/.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)