Good debugger for CPython 3.2?

Dan Stromberg drsalists at gmail.com
Fri Oct 19 13:41:44 EDT 2012


On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> What's a good debugger for CPython 3.2?  I'd prefer to use it on Linux
> Mint 13, and I'd be happy with something based on X11 or curses.
>
> I tried winpdb, but it was cranky that Linux didn't have a spawn
> callable.  Why they didn't use the portable subprocess module escapes me.
>
> I also tried ddd, but it blew up on:
> def callable(*msg, file=sys.stderr):
> ...which suggests to me that this is too-new syntax for the child debugger
> ddd is using.
>
> Are there other good options?  Did I give up too quickly on one of the
> above?
>

Quick update: I seem to be having good luck with pudb (the latest git
version) so far.

The name probably wasn't given by someone in marketing, but it seems to
work.
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