[Python-ideas] pdb to support running modules

[Lisa Roach]

I also +1 this idea, I don't see a reason why we couldn't run pdb on the
modules.

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 12:29 PM, Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 1:56 PM, Mario Corchero <mariocj89 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Since PEP 338 we can run python modules as a script via `python -m
> > module_name` but there is no way to run pdb on those (AFAIK).
> >
> > The proposal is to add a new argument "-m" to the pdb module to allow
> users
> > to run `python -m pdb -m my_module_name`
>
> Mega +1, I always, always want this, for every command that itself can
> invoke other python scripts. There is prior art in that this feature
> was already added to cProfile as well:
> https://bugs.python.org/issue21862
>
> -- Devin
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