On Oct 8, 1:18 pm, Kääriäinen Anssi <anssi.kaariai...@thl.fi> wrote:
> I am currently debugging the django test cases, and there are a lot of 
> variables names like w, q, where, condition and so on. Especially variables 
> like w, q, c, r are really annoying. It would be cool if pdb would detect a 
> clash and in that case ask you what to do. Nothing more annoying than 
> stepping through the code, finally finding the problematic place and then 
> trying to find out what c.somevar contains... I am using Python 2.6.
>
> Is there some way to do this? My googling didn't turn out anything. Or is it 
> recommended to use something else instead of pdb?
>
> Thank you for your time,
>  - Anssi Kääriäinen

Its not perfect but I use in sitecustomize

def precmd(self,l):
    if '.' in l:
        if l[:1]!='!':l='!'+l
        return l
    if l in self.curframe.f_locals:
        return '!'+l
    if l.startswith('@'): return l[1:]
    return l
import pdb
pdb.Pdb.precmd = precmd

What this does is
q ->variable q if it exists else quit command
@q ->always quit
!q ->always variable

HTH
   Jon
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