Debugging Embedded Python

[Anurag Uniyal]

Hi,
I think what you want can be found at
archaeopteryx.com. 
You can get a 30 day trial verison.
I am using it and for debugging  my embedded scripts
and by importing a script provided by archaeopteryx.com you can
attach debugger to any running script.

rgds
Anurag

mark.charsley at REMOVE_THIS.radioscape.com (Mark Charsley) wrote in message 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.
> 
> Now the C++ program basically does the following...
> 
> - Initialises some C++ stuff
> - loads in the python DLL
> - initialises some python stuff
> - starts a long complicated bunch of processing that bounces between 
> python and C++
> 
> One way to get the python running under a debugger is to tweak the system 
> so that the C++ executable becomes a C++ DLL that can be loaded as a 
> python extension. Then it's just a case of having a tiny python script 
> that
> 
> - initialises some python stuff
> - loads in the C++ DLL
> - initialises some C++ stuff
> - starts a long complicated bunch of processing that bounces between 
> python and C++
> 
> It's then a simple matter of running the above python script in a python 
> debugger.
> 
> While this would work, it has two irritants
> 1) the work required to change the C++ executable into a python extension 
> DLL
> 2) the python debugger will (presumably) be built to use release-build 
> DLL's. Which means that any build where we can run the whole thing under a 
> python debugger (i.e. a release build) can't easily be run under a C++ 
> debugger and vice versa.
> 
> Are there any win32-compatible python debuggers out there which can
> a) do an "Attach to process" and debug any executable that's using the 
> python DLL
> and/or
> b) have source or pre-built debug builds available?
> 
> Many TIA