pdb bug and questions

[castironpi]

On Sep 4, 4:22 pm, Stef Mientki <stef.mien... at gmail.com> wrote:
> hello,
>
> I'm trying to embed a debugger into an editor.
> I'm only interested in high level debugging.
> The first question is what debugger is the best for my purpose ?
> (pdb, pydb, rpdb2, smart debugger, extended debugger ?
>
> Second question, in none of the above debuggers (except rpdb2),
> I can find a  "break now",
> so it seems impossible to me to detect unlimited while loops ?
>
> For the moment I started with pdb, because most of the debuggers seems
> to be an extension on pdb.
> When I launch the debugger ( winXP, Python 2.5) from with my editor
>   python -u -m pdb  D:\\Data\\test_IDE.py
> I get this error
>   IOError: (2, 'No such file or directory', 'D:\\Data\test_IDE.py')
> NOTICE 1 backslash ----------------------------------^
>
> If I launch the debugger with
>   python -u -m pdb  D:/Data/test_IDE.py
> It runs fine.
>
> This looks like a bug to me.
> What's the best way to report these kind of bugs ?
>
> Although I mostly use os.path.join to be OS independent,
> these kind of bugs give me the impression,
> that I can better do the join myself and always use forward slashes.
> Is this a valid conclusion ?
>
> thanks,
> Stef Mientki

Stef,

I discovered the same problem too with my editor.  I solved it by
using only the file name, and setting the initial directory on the
executable.

For something pdb doesn't have, can you look at it yourself?  Or, can
you write your own ad hoc, specialized to detecting while loops, using
settrace and 'except KeyboardInterrupt'?