Debugging on the Mac question.

[Paul Rudin]

Sean Murphy <mhysnm1964 at gmail.com> writes:


> I am a Vision Impaired programmer on the Mac and Window platforms. I have
> started to learn Python. The biggest road block I have is the ability of
> debugging my simple scripts. The IDLE program does not work with the screen
> readers I use on the Mac or Windows. A screen reader is a program that grabs
> the text on the screen and converts it into speech output, at least this is the
> 50000 feet explanation.  I cannot see the screen at all.
>
> I have looked at eclipse and it doesn't work with Voice-Over (the screen reader
> on the Mac). I have java issues on my windows machine preventing me running
> this app.
>
> If I use $python -d script.py the debugger doesn't seem to trigger on the mac. 
>
> So how I can perform a debug on a script so I can step through it, set up break
> points, watch variables, etc.
>
> It is really annoying me, since under Perl I just added the -d switch and had a
> full debugger that worked at the console level.

For command line debugging see
<http://docs.python.org/3/library/pdb.html>. 


More generally you might want to investigate
<http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/> (disclaimer - I have never used
this, but from what you say you might find it useful).