Re: pydb [was: The DDD tree ...]

[David Relson]

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:11:35 -0400
R. Bernstein wrote:

> David Relson writes:
>  > On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:43:18 -0400
>  > R. Bernstein wrote:
>  > 
>  > > David Relson writes:
>  > >  > Perchance, does the latest pydb remember breakpoints after a
>  > >  > restart command?  That's the feature I'd most like to see!
>  > > 
>  > > It's there. The older pydb didn't have a gdb "run" command, so
>  > > ddd
>                      ^^^^^
>  > > *had* to do an "exec" of the program to restart.  The exec kills
>  > > breakpoints
>                                                                 ^^^^
>  > Hi Rocky,
>  > 
>  > Usually I'm restarting the debugger because I found a problem and
>  > changed the code.  It seems that what I need is a way to restart
>  > the python interpreter and have persistent breakpoints.  The
>  > obvious approach is for pydb to keep a list of breakpoints and
>  > apply them on restart.  Since that hasn't been done, I'm guessing
>  > the solution is much harder to implement than that.  Sigh ...
> 
> Reread the first sentence again. Get a current pydb from
>   http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=61395
> 
> and while you are there, get the ddd-3.3.12-test5. 
> 
> You can get pydb also from the Python Cheese shop or one of the
> packages mentioned in http://bashdb.sf.net/pydb. 
> 
> (P.S. Also do take a look at what's been written at the above URL; it
> might answer questions you have as it would have in the past.)

Hi Rocky,

As an emacs user, I access pydb using the pydb command.  I've been
using pydb-1.18 for the last month or two.  As that's the latest
released version, I'm up to date, yes??

While the run command _does_ remember breakpoints the restart command
does _not_. Since testing/developing involves switching back and forth
between debugging and editing, having breakpoints remembered is
important.

I've looked at what's written at the URL several times since
installing pydb-1.18.  I see that run remembers breakpoints and that
restart execs (restarts) the the debugger.  I don't see that
breakpoints persist across a restart.  Perhaps I need new eyeglasses,
but I just don't see the capability about which I'm asking.

Regards,

David