On Jul 31, 2010, at 12:45 AM, Georg Brandl wrote: >to warm up for tomorrow's 3.2alpha1 release, I did a mini-sprint on >pdb issues today. I'm pleased to report that 14 issues could be >closed, and pdb got a range of small new features, such as commands on >the command line, "until <lineno>" or "longlist" showing all the code >for the current function (the latter courtesy of Antonio Cuni's pdb++).
I haven't played with pdb++ (I might have to do something about that) but it's awesome that you're giving pdb some love. >One issue that's not yet closed is #7245, which adds a (very nice IMO) >feature: when you press Ctrl-C while the program being debugged runs, >you will not get a traceback but execution is suspended, and you can >debug from the current point of execution -- just like in gdb. That *would* be nice. >Another question is about a feature of pdb++ that I personally would >like, but imagine would make others unhappy: one-letter abbreviations >of commands such as c(ontinue) or l(ist) are also often-used variable >names, so they are frequently typed without the required "!" or "print" >that would distinguish them from the command, and the command is >actually executed. The feature in question would default to printing >the variable in cases where one exists -- handy enough or too >inconsistent? Not that important to me... >Also, are there any other features you would like to see? One feature >of pdb++ that is general enough and has no dependencies would be watch >expressions... ...but watch expressions - and the equivalent of gdb's 'display' command - would be very cool. `interact` would also be useful and probably pretty easy to add. -Barry
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