[Python-checkins] bpo-35835: Add reference to Python 3.7 new breakpoint() function in pdb documentation. (GH-11691)

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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/cf991e653ac550a9f011631447c61ce583404a57
commit: cf991e653ac550a9f011631447c61ce583404a57
branch: master
author: João Matos <jcrmatos at gmail.com>
committer: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2019-01-30T09:23:39-08:00
summary:

bpo-35835: Add reference to Python 3.7 new breakpoint() function in pdb documentation. (GH-11691)

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M Doc/library/pdb.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/pdb.rst b/Doc/library/pdb.rst
index a72876f3f5a8..c7864e9e3f22 100644
--- a/Doc/library/pdb.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/pdb.rst
@@ -76,6 +76,10 @@ at the location you want to break into the debugger.  You can then step through
 the code following this statement, and continue running without the debugger
 using the :pdbcmd:`continue` command.
 
+.. versionadded:: 3.7
+   The built-in :func:`breakpoint()`, when called with defaults, can be used
+   instead of ``import pdb; pdb.set_trace()``.
+
 The typical usage to inspect a crashed program is::
 
    >>> import pdb