[Pythonmac-SIG] PythonIDE - debugger problems

[Wolfgang Keller]

Hello,

and yet another question... :-)

I'm currently playing around with the nntplib module, and when I tried to
debug a script that, among others, fetches a full group list from my
provider's newsserver, I found out that the debuger of the PythonIDE does
not seem to 'like' tupels, lists, dictionaries, etc. with lots of items.
Before the script fetches the list, starting up the debugger and stepping
through the code goes instantly. But once I have the full list with > 10000
items assigned to a variable, it takes ages (several minutes for starting
the debugger, each step, etc.).

I guess that this is due to the fact that the browser panes display the
values of all local and global variables (in my case, they are few, but
large) all the time and update them at each step. If so, would there be any
problem (apart from the fact that someone has to do it :-)) to change this
behaviour to display only the name and type/class of the variables all the
time and display the values of a selected variable only on request? For
example, in a fourth pane on the right in the top row? Or am I comepletly
missing the point and the slowdown I experience is due to /something
completely different/? :-)

TIA,

regards,


Wolfgang Keller

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