On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hasn't it always been like that? I tried with Python 2.3 now and it's > the same. I have no memory of that actually changing an existing > variable in any version of Python I've used. More testing turns out > that this works: > > -> print "lv is ", lv > (Pdb) lv=2 > (Pdb) c > lv is 2 > > While this seem to "reset" is: > > -> print "lv is ", lv > (Pdb) lv=2 > (Pdb) lv > 1 > (Pdb) c > lv is 1 > > This is the same from Python 2.3 to 2.6. I thought is just was a lack > of feature, that there for some reason was really hard to change the > value of an existing variable from the debugger. I though that for ten > years. It never occurred to me to change the variable and type c > without first checking that the variable had changed... :-) > > It is however fixed in 2.7. > > -> print "lv is ", lv > (Pdb) lv=2 > (Pdb) lv > 2 > (Pdb) c > lv is 2 > > > But this bug/lack of feature has been there as long as I can remember. :-)
I swear it was my intention that assigning to locals would work, and I was surprised to learn that it didn't. I'm glad it's fixed in 2.7 though... :-) -- --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
