Newbie question: python debugger ?

[Frank Miles]

I've about accepted that I can't use ddd to debug python scripts.  The
version that debian(linux) [0.4] has doesn't set breakpoints.  And now I
find that I can't seem to read the values of class variables of the form
self.var_name.

Does 0.5 fix the self.var_name problem?  Are there other/better alternatives
to debugging Python scripts?

TIA....

	-frank

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