Debugging Embedded Python

[Chris Liechti]

mark.charsley at REMOVE_THIS.radioscape.com (Mark Charsley) wrote in
news:memo.20020712144413.1996A at a.a: 

> We've got a (win32) C++ program that has an embedded python
> interpreter that runs a bunch of scripts. We've been asked to enable
> it's users to run the python scripts under a debugger, allowing the
> users to put in breakpoints, examine/alter values etc.

this is in the sys module:
settrace(tracefunc) 
  Set the system's trace function, which allows you to implement a Python 
  source code debugger in Python. See section 9.2, ``How It Works,'' in the 
  chapter on the Python debugger. The function is thread-specific; for a 
  debugger to support multiple threads, it must be registered using 
  settrace() for each thread being debugged.

so you could write the trace function in your c/c++ extension and register 
it in the embedded python interpreter. that means that you write your own 
debugger but its one way. an other is that you could (maybe) use a remote 
debugger like HAP (somewhere on sf.net).

chris
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