[ 643835 ] Set Next Statement for Python debuggers
with a few tweaks by me: adding an unsigned or two, mentioning that
not all jumps are allowed in the doc for pdb, adding a NEWS item and
a note to whatsnew, and AuCTeX doing something cosmetic to libpdb.tex.
[ 587993 ] SET_LINENO killer
Remove SET_LINENO. Tracing is now supported by inspecting co_lnotab.
Many sundry changes to document and adapt to this change.
more spaces only crashed pdb.
While I was at it, cleaned up some style nits (spaces between function
and parenthesis, and redundant parentheses in if statement).
comments, docstrings or error messages. I fixed two minor things in
test_winreg.py ("didn't" -> "Didn't" and "Didnt" -> "Didn't").
There is a minor style issue involved: Guido seems to have preferred English
grammar (behaviour, honour) in a couple places. This patch changes that to
American, which is the more prominent style in the source. I prefer English
myself, so if English is preferred, I'd be happy to supply a patch myself ;)
When you set a breakpoint on a function with a multi-line argument
list, the breakpoint is actually set on the second line of the
arguments instead of the first line of the body. This patch fixes
that.
*this* set of patches is Ka-Ping's final sweep:
The attached patches update the standard library so that all modules
have docstrings beginning with one-line summaries.
A new docstring was added to formatter. The docstring for os.py
was updated to mention nt, os2, ce in addition to posix, dos, mac.
who writes:
Here is batch 2, as a big collection of CVS context diffs.
Along with moving comments into docstrings, i've added a
couple of missing docstrings and attempted to make sure more
module docstrings begin with a one-line summary.
I did not add docstrings to the methods in profile.py for
fear of upsetting any careful optimizations there, though
i did move class documentation into class docstrings.
The convention i'm using is to leave credits/version/copyright
type of stuff in # comments, and move the rest of the descriptive
stuff about module usage into module docstrings. Hope this is
okay.
I regularly find that pdb sets the breakpoint on the wrong line when I
try to set a breakpoint on a function. This fixes the problem
somewhat.
The real problem is that pdb tries to parse the Python source code to
find the first executable line. A better way might be to inspect the
code object, or even have a variable in the code object
co_firstexecutablelineno, but that's too much work.
The patch fixes the problem when the first code line after the def
statement contains the start *and* end of a triple-quoted string. The
code assumed that the end of a triple-quoted string is not on the same
line as the start, and so it would skip to the end of the *next*
triple-quoted string.
the file that a function is defined on. Non-portable to Windows and
JPython. Instead, new find_function() uses re module on a similar
(simple-minded) pattern.
clear
clear file:line
clear bpno bpno ...
Also print the breakpoint data after calling set_break(), because the
print statement in set_break() has gone.
pdb.py Uses the Breakpoint class so one can enable/disable breakpoints,
set temporary ones, set ignore counts, and conditions. The last
can be set using the 'b' command
b 243 , i>4 ( b 243,i>4 if you are space adverse)
or with the condition command so conditions can be changed
for a particular breakpoint.
Breakpoints are numbered from 1 on, and if a breakpoint is deleted,
the number is not reused. All the breakpoint handling commands
refer to breakpoints by number. To be consistent, the clear command
does so as well, which is the one change from the original pdb that
is not transparent. Thus only the breakpoint command 'b' uses a
line number or file:line or method. You can also give
b whrandom.random and the method will be searched for along
sys.path. This is implemented with an 'egrep' command and so
is not as portable as it might be. [ see lineinfo() and
lineinfoCmd ]
Breakpoints cannot be set at a line that is blank or a '#' comment
or starts a triply quoted comment. This is because I would like
this behavior in my DDD interface and think it reasonable for
pdb as well. It can be removed readily, however as it is all
incorporated in the routine checkline(). If one attempts to
set a breakpoint at a 'def' line, the breakpoint is automatically
moved to the first executable line after the 'def'. This too is
in checkline().
do_EOF() returns zero so typing an end-of-file character as a command
does nothing. 'quit' does the quitting.
The routine defaultFile() is present so as to preserve the current
pdb behavior and yet allow me to override it in pydb.
There's some code in lineinfo() that is probably mainly useful only
for pydb and if you prefer, much up to the comment "Best first guess"
could be removed.
Keith Davidson provided the code for handling $HOME/.pdbrc and
./.pdbrc, and it has been incorporated. He also provided the
alias handling routine. I modified it a bit so it could live
nicely in precmd(). He and I have been in contact; he has the
new pdb (and pydb) with his code incorporated. He also asked
about the possibility of allowing multiple commands on one
line, such as step;step or s;s or with an alias such as
alias ct tbreak %1 ; continue
and since it was so easy, that's in place as well. It's a simple
'split the line at the first ";"' operation and puts the second
half in the command queue (self.cmdqueue). This has the unfortunate
effect of destroying a line like print "i: "+i+"; j: "+j
but either there's a simple way to deal with this, or my attitude
will remain that pdb is a debugger, not a compiler/parser/etc.
An alias like alias 4s s;;s;
will work because the adjacent and trailing ";" act like a <cr> which
repeats the last command. Of course, either s;s;s;s or s;;; would be
a bit more sensible.
The help commands have been updated.
according to an idea by Harri Pasanen (but with different syntax).
This affects the 'break' and 'clear' commands and their help
functions. Also added a helper method lookupmodule().
Also:
- Try to import readline (important when pdb is used from/as a script).
- Get rid of reference to ancient __privileged__ magic variable.
- Moved all import out of functions to the top.
- When used as a script, check that the script file exists.
constructors. There is no backward compatibility. Not everything has
been tested.
* aiff.{py,doc}: deleted in favor of aifc.py (which contains its docs as
comments)
* builtin.py: b/w compat for builtin -> __builtin__ name change
* string.py: added atof() and atol() and corresponding exceptions
* test_types.py: added test for list sort with user comparison function
Guido van Rossum
Michael W. Hudson
Barry Warsaw
Tim Peters
Raymond Hettinger
Eric S. Raymond
Skip Montanaro
Fred Drake
Thomas Wouters