Newbie questions on pdb
Fred Clare
fred at balzac.scd.ucar.edu
Tue Jun 6 18:32:34 EDT 2000
I have read the sections on pdb in Lutz's "Learning Python,"
in Beazley's "Essential Reference" and in the Library Reference on
python.org, and I still do not understand how to use it in even
the simplest of all cases. For example, suppose I have a python
module "test.py" that is:
a = 1
b = 2
c = 3
How do I use pdb to step through this module a line at a time?
I do
>>> import pdb
>>> import test
>>> pdb.run("test")
At this point I get
<string>(0)?()
What does this mean? Nobody seems to explain the symbols in
this line.
I then do a
b 1
and get
End of file
The books talk about setting break points in "the current file."
What is the current file in a case like the above? Or in any case?
--
Fred Clare
fred at ucar.edu
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