Not quite long ago, I wrote, You loose all capabilities of pdb when you're in IPython (there's a solution, i'll get to that later)
Its called ipdb. IPythonised pdb. I havent used it to recommend it. I'm happy with the solution that I have right now for debugging and writing code. Read more about it here. http://www.electricmonk.nl/log/2008/06/25/breakpoint-induced-python-debugging-with-ipython/ On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Senthil Kumaran <orsent...@gmail.com> wrote: > Using IPython from pdb, what use is it? > I read Jeff's excellent mail on debugging and tracing and he insisted on > using IPython from pdb. I have used pdb extensively and never used IPython, > (it never caught me, given that odd interface of number[:]) etc. > > So, I am really not sure as how using IPython from pdb can help during > debugging? I tried it, I loose all the pdb's capabilities when I enter into > the IPython shell. How do people normally use it? > > -- > Senthil > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
