After a while programming in python, I still don't know how to break out to the debugger other than inserting an instruction to cause an exception. x=1/0
In IDL one woudl write stop,'reason for stopping...' at which point you can inspect locals (as in pdb) and continue (but you can't with pdb if python stopped because of an exception) I am using ipython -pylab -pdb (python 2.5,2.6) Yes, I realise that I could start with the debugger, and set break points, but that can be slower and sometimes cause problems, and I like ipython's magic features. Also, I don't know how to stop cleanly handing control back to ipython inside a program - e.g. after printing help text. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
