Any good debuggers for Python? (was Re: using python debugger

[Ovidiu Predescu]

On Tue, 21 Sep 1999 19:50:53 GMT, wware-nospam at world.std.com (Will Ware) wrote:

> Ovidiu Predescu (ovidiu at cup.hp.com) wrote:
> : Actually PyDB works as a front-end for GDB....
> 
> One thing that would be great would be to replace GDB's rather
> inexpressive control language with something more like Python
> or Scheme. I once tried to cajole the Cygnus folks into doing
> this but they weren't interested. It sounds like PyDB might be
> doing something similar, but with the assumption that the C
> program under study is always the Python interpreter. But a
> Pythonized GDB that could be applied to any C program would be
> a very cool thing.

As I said in a previous posting, this is exactly what we're working on here at
HP, in the WDB project. You will be able to actually extend GDB by writing your
own scripts in Python to help you debug your program. I hope this code will be
eventually be accepted for inclusion on the main FSF tree of GDB (now
maintained by the Cygnus folks).

Greetings,
Ovidiu

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