pdbi 0.1

Improved IPython-enabled pdb

Python Debugger Improved

Use

pdbi is an improvment on ipdb which is a Python Debugger that exports IPython functionality. The improvements are aimed at more powerful debugging as well as fixing useless commands.

Example usage:

import pdbi; pdbi.set_trace()

Features

• ‘cf’ command (continue forever) will continue execution until the end of the program.

• ‘c’ command argument that allows to decide the number of breakpoints to continue over. ‘c 2’

• ‘n’ command argument that allows to decide the number of lines to execute. ‘n 2’ [Stops when a frame returns]

• New ‘e’ command that will open an editor (Notepad++ on Windows, VIM or VI on Unix) on the current debugger line, then when the editor is closed, the debugger shows the difference and restarts the program (Based on sys.argv).

• Allow the usage of ipython magics like ‘func?’ or ‘func?@’ etc.

• All updated commands allow pythonic arguments for example ‘c len(cmd_list)’ or ‘n abc’.

• ‘l’ command updated to allow giving only one argument that shows that argument amount of lines around the current line.

• ‘ll’ command that is a shortcut to show the current line the debugger is on.

• ‘restart’ command that is used to restart the program based on sys.argv.

• ‘cls/clear’ command that clears the screen.

• Added ability to force ignore commands by prefixing the command with an ‘!’. For example ‘!cls’ or ‘!e’.

Contact me

email: [e-mail]

linkedin: Amit Assaraf

I’d love to get feedback and suggestions on what I should add/change! Thanks!

Changelog

0.8.2 (unreleased)

• Nothing changed yet.

0.8.1 (2015-06-03)

• Make Nose support less invasive. Closes https://github.com/gotcha/ipdb/issues/52 Closes https://github.com/gotcha/ipdb/issues/31 [blink1073, gotcha]

• Fix for post_mortem in context manager. Closes https://github.com/gotcha/ipdb/issues/20 [omergertel]

0.8 (2013-09-19)

• More Python 3 compatibility; implies dropping Python 2.5 support. Closes https://github.com/gotcha/ipdb/issues/37 [gotcha]

0.7.1 (2013-09-19)

• IPython 1.0 compatibility. Closes https://github.com/gotcha/ipdb/issues/44 [pgularski]

• Index into version_info in setup.py for Python 2.6 compatibility. [kynan]

• Add Travis CI configuration. [kynan]

0.7 (2012-07-06)

• Add launch_ipdb_on_exception context manager. Implies dropping Python 2.4 support. [Psycojoker]

• Wrap sys.excepthook only once. [marciomazza]

• Add GPL file and refer in headers. [stan3]

• Python 3 support. [Piet Delport]

• Basic tests. [msabramo]

• Added the functions runcall, runeval and run. [dimasad]

0.6.1 (2011-10-17)

• State dependency on IPython later or equal to 0.10. [gotcha]

0.6 (2011-09-01)

• Add setuptools console_scripts entry point. [akrito, gotcha]

• Nose support. Closes https://github.com/gotcha/ipdb/issues/8 [akaihola, gotcha]

0.5 (2011-08-05)

• IPython 0.11 support. [lebedov]

0.4 (2011-06-13)

• When used from IPython, use its colors. Closes https://github.com/gotcha/ipdb/issues/1 [gotcha]

• Fixed errors when exiting with “q”. [gotcha]

• Allow use of python -m ipdb mymodule.py. Python 2.7 only. Closes https://github.com/gotcha/ipdb/issues/3 [gotcha]

• Fixed post_mortem when the traceback is None. [maurits]

0.3 (2011-01-16)

• Add post_mortem() for Products.PDBDebugMode support. [Jean Jordaan]

• Moved to github.com.

0.2 (2010-10-20)

• Added pm(). [Paulo Benedict Ang]

0.1 (2010-04-26)

• First “non dev” release.