Sean Murphy <mhysnm1...@gmail.com> writes:
> I am a Vision Impaired programmer on the Mac and Window platforms. I have > started to learn Python. The biggest road block I have is the ability of > debugging my simple scripts. The IDLE program does not work with the screen > readers I use on the Mac or Windows. A screen reader is a program that grabs > the text on the screen and converts it into speech output, at least this is > the > 50000 feet explanation. I cannot see the screen at all. > > I have looked at eclipse and it doesn't work with Voice-Over (the screen > reader > on the Mac). I have java issues on my windows machine preventing me running > this app. > > If I use $python -d script.py the debugger doesn't seem to trigger on the > mac. > > So how I can perform a debug on a script so I can step through it, set up > break > points, watch variables, etc. > > It is really annoying me, since under Perl I just added the -d switch and had > a > full debugger that worked at the console level. For command line debugging see <http://docs.python.org/3/library/pdb.html>. More generally you might want to investigate <http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/> (disclaimer - I have never used this, but from what you say you might find it useful). -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
