New submission from mbyt:
The global .pdbrc file is determined by the %HOME% environment variable.
However, this is not available out of the box on e.g. windows 7 systems. Here
only %HOMEDRIVE% and %HOMEPATH% are defined.
Thus the usual approach to have a global .pdbrc file on windows is to define a
%HOME% environment variable by hand. This could be avoided if the global .pdbrc
would be determined by os.path.expanduser("~/.pdbrc"), which works on current
windows and does the magic behind.
There are two possible approaches to improve this situation:
* explicitly mention in the docs that on windows a %HOME% varialbe need to be
created manually
* patch pdb.py to use os.path.expanduser instead (see attached diff)
For reference, see also old discussion
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-October/349550.html.
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files: pdb.diff
keywords: patch
messages: 210349
nosy: mbyt
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: global .pdbrc on windows 7 not reachable out of the box
type: enhancement
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file33935/pdb.diff
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