Post mortem debugging IDE

[Fernando Pérez]

Irmen de Jong wrote:

>> Try IPython: http://www-hep.colorado.edu/~fperez/ipython/
> 
> Thank you, but this is not exactly what I meant. (sorry I was not clear).
> IPython is a more of a "text mode IDE".
> While it looks very useful indeed, I actually was
> interested in graphical IDEs such as Komodo.
> 
> What I was looking for is an GUI based IDE with a debugger which has
> a variable watch window, a call stack window, source view ofcourse,
> and post-mortem capabilities. Komodo seems to have all but post mortem
> capabilities. Very strange because a post mortem debugger is part of
> Python, right (module pdb)?

Ah, ok. Then you may _still_ want to play with IPython for a moment :) Reason: 
the automatic pdb implementation is very straightforward, basically an 
assignment to sys.excepthook. You can look at how ipython does it and 
implement it for yourself in your favorite GUI IDE of the day.

Cheers,

f.