On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 25, 2010, at 11:38 AM, Michael Foord wrote: >> Antonio Cuni demoed some *great* improvements to the pdb module at >> EuroPython. A project called pdb++ >> >> http://codespeak.net/svn/user/antocuni/hack/pdb.py >> >> Among its improvements it includes the ability to debug through generator >> frames, which pdb can't. It would be great to see some of these fixes folded >> back into the standard library version. >> > > +1
+1 on adding tracing through generators. Not so much about the other pdb++ features that were demoed. While I liked the demo at EuroPython (and applauded), in general I am wary of adding this kind of UI cleverness to the stdlib -- things like the (seemingly curses-based) updating of the listing in-line are usually pretty fragile. Also the development cycle of a tool like this is likely 1-2 orders of magnitude over that of the stdlib. (For this reason I also think it's right that ipython is still a 3rd party tool). -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
