[Idle-dev] IDLEfork / Docs / Startup etc.

[Guido van Rossum]

> On the subject of debugging, I had previously thought that it was
> something we had broken a little somehow in the process of merging
> in the last couple of years of changes and bug fixes from stable
> idle, but it appears that may not be the case. Can anybody tell me,
> was debugging ever working as expected since the initial VPython
> changes in idle fork?  Can anyone who contributed to those changes
> (David?) let me know where to start looking at getting it working
> again, or is this problem an unavoidable result of the current
> remote execution impementation?

I *think* VPython never did use the debugger.

My remote execution code contains remote debugger support (but not
100% working).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)