pdb will not continue

[Dieter Maurer]

Tim Egbert <tegbert at xmission.xmission.com> writes on Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:30:17 -0700:
> I'm new to the pbd module, but think I've got most of it working. The
> problem I'm having, however, is that even though I can set break points, I
> can't get pdb to 'continue' ('cont' or 'c') to the break point.  All it
> will do is advance one line.  What am I doing wrong?
This is a bug in PDB:
  Pdb.runcall cannot continue in the top level function
  (it can inside a called function).

You can use "Pdb.run" instead of "Pdb.runcall" (it takes a string
with the function call rather than the function and the arguments).

Dieter.