Joel Koltner wrote:
Just curious... in Microsoft's Visual Studio (and I would presume some
other tools), for many languages (both interpreted and compiled!)
there's an "edit and conitnue" option that, when you hit a breakpoint,
allows you to modify a line of code before it's actually executed.
Does any Python debugger support this feature? Being an interpreted
language it doesn't seem like it would necessarily be too onerous to
support? It'd be quite handy in that, especially if you hit a
breakpoint due to the interpreter throwing an error, you could fix just
the line in question and keep going, rather than having to stop the
entire program, fix the line, and then run again and potentially kill a
bunch of time getting the program back into the same "state."
Having actually used LISP systems with "edit and continue", it's a good
thing that Python doesn't have it. It encourages a "patch" mentality, and
the resulting code is usually disappointing.
What the original poster seems to need is a global analysis
tool that insures that all names used are defined. Like "pylint".
John Nagle
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