Any good debuggers for Python? (was Re: using python debugger (pdb) inside emacs debugger mode ...)

[Randall Hopper]

Ovidiu Predescu:
 |I didn't figure out exactly all the details, but the basic idea is to use
 |GDB to handle all the interaction with the user instead of pdb. pdb
 |becomes only a debugging engine that's loaded in a Python program and
 |knows how to setup breakpoints, continue the program etc. All these
 |operations are published in a simple Python API that could be called from
 |GDB.

I believe this is how DDD/PyDB works as well (providing the user with a
graphical Python debugger).

 |What I'm working on right now is adding scripting language support to GDB
 |so that this kind of functionality could be implemented in GDB using an
 |interpreted language and not C. The language I'm embedding is surprise,
 |Python ;-). This work is part of the WDB project here, at HP, but all the
 |work we're doing is going back in the FSF main tree. For more information
 |on WDB, take a look at:
 |
 |http://www.hp.com/esy/lang/tools/Debuggers/index.html

Sounds interesting.  Hope to hear more about this later.

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Randall Hopper
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