Debugging on the Mac question.

[Robert Kern]

On 2014-01-03 04:17, Sean Murphy wrote:
> Team,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> If I use $python -d script.py the debugger doesn't seem to trigger on the mac.
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> So how I can perform a debug on a script so I can step through it, set up break points, watch variables, etc.
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> 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.

Python also has a console debugger. -d does not invoke it; -d is for something else.

   $ python -m pdb myscript.py

http://docs.python.org/3.3/library/pdb

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco