Let's talk about debuggers!

[Thomas Jollans]

On 2017-10-25 15:57, Rustom Mody wrote:
> 
> pdb inside emacs works (to a fashion)
> And it shows the arrow for current line so its at least quasi-gui
> 
> I believe idle too is much more usable than a few years earlier

I haven't used IDLE in years (if ever), partly because Tkinter is so
incredibly ugly, and feels so out-of-place on a modern PC (maybe it's
tolerable on Windows, I wouldn't know).

In any case I just tried it out and good lord that's terrible. You can
set breakpoints in the editor (good), it shows locals (excellent), but
it doesn't show you what line you're at when stepping through (seriously?).

I'll go back to not even touching IDLE with a ten-foot pole now.


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Thomas Jollans