Re: python and DDD

[Christian Monfort]

Norm Matloff wrote:

> Does the DDD debugger interface really work with Python?  I've seen
> several postings on the Web in which people asked this, but there never
> seems to be an answer.
>
> I'm using the recommended
>
>     if __name__ == '__main__':
>        main()
>
> and invoking DDD with the --pydb option.
>
> I can set breakpoints successfully but DDD skips right over them.
> Actually, it is pydb that is skipping right over them, as I found when I
> ran pydb from the command line instead of through DDD.

If pydb cannot stop at you breakpoints, then there is no chance DDD could
do it as it is a GUI over the debugger; DDD just "drives" the debugger and
displays returned data in a more good-looking manner.
You have to make pydb  work alone _before_ it can work with DDD. (maybe
there is a bug in the pydb version you are using - check if there is an
upgrade correcting this).

CM

>
> I'm using DDD 3.3 and Python 2.2.1.  The ordinary pdb works fine.
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
> Norm Matloff