Do any debuggers support "edit and continue?"

[Stef Mientki]

On 12-05-2010 19:42, Joel Koltner wrote:
> Just curious... in Microsoft's Visual Studio (and I would presume some
> other tools), for many languages (both interpreted and compiled!)
> there's an "edit and conitnue" option that, when you hit a breakpoint,
> allows you to modify a line of code before it's actually executed.
>
> Does any Python debugger support this feature?  Being an interpreted
> language it doesn't seem like it would necessarily be too onerous to
> support?  It'd be quite handy in that, especially if you hit a
> breakpoint due to the interpreter throwing an error, you could fix
> just the line in question and keep going, rather than having to stop
> the entire program, fix the line, and then run again and potentially
> kill a bunch of time getting the program back into the same "state."
>
> Thanks,
> ---Joel Koltner
>
winpdb perhaps ?

Stef
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