python debugger tips?

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

just.another.random.user at gmail.com a écrit :
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm switching to python from perl, and like the language a ton, but I
> find pdb and pydb to be vastly inferior debuggers to the perl version.
> 
> In particular, I've grown very used to stepping into arbitrary
> functions interactively.  For instance, in perl you can do this:
> 
> casqa1:~> perl -de 42
> 
> Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.28
> Editor support available.
> 
> Enter h or `h h' for help, or `man perldebug' for more help.
> 
> main::(-e:1):   42
>   DB<1> sub foo {return 42}
> 
> 
> 
>   DB<2> s foo()
> main::((eval 7)[/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.6/perl5db.pl:628]:3):
> 3:      foo();
> 
> 
>   DB<<3>> s
> main::foo((eval 6)[/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.6/perl5db.pl:628]:2):
> 2:      sub foo {return 42};
>   DB<<3>>
> 
> 
> 
> Which is quite awesome; I don't have to restart the program if I want
> to step through a given function call with a different set of values.

In your python shell:

import somelib
import pdb
pdb.runcall(somelib.somefunc, 42, foo='bar')


Also and IIRC, ipython (an alternative and more featurefull python 
shell) has some interesting stuff wrt/ pdb integration.