PETER, thanks Peter, I have already found the PDB module and have had a play with it. It will do for now. On 03/01/2014, at 8:08 PM, Paul Rudin <paul.nos...@rudin.co.uk> wrote:
> 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 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list