Launching pdb from within a script

[Mike C. Fletcher]

Peter Otten wrote:

>Graham Nicholls wrote:
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>>But pdb complains that there are no such variables.  It may be that I had
>>to add some incantation around the script startup - I just can't remember
>>(and its frustrating!).
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>-> Pdb().set_trace()
>(Pdb) abc
>*** NameError: name 'abc' is not defined
>(Pdb) u
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This is the key line, 'n' would work as well.  The reason your variables 
weren't being found is that you were still inside the call to 
set_trace().  You need to return from that (either by going "u"p to the 
calling context, or to the "n"ext instruction, which returns to the 
calling context by finishing the set_trace() call).

Enjoy,
Mike

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  Mike C. Fletcher
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