Ed Leafe wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks to the help of many on this list, I've been able to take code > that is created by the user in my app and add it to an object as an > instance method. The technique used is roughly: > > nm = "myMethod" > code = """def myMethod(self): > print "Line 1" > print "My Value is %s" % self.Value > return > """ > compCode = compile(code, "", "exec") > exec compCode > exec "self.%s = %s.__get__(self)" % (nm, nm) > > This is working great, but now I'm wondering if there is a way to > enable pdb tracing of the code as it executes? When tracing "normal" > code, pdb will show you the name of the script being executed, the > line number and the source code for the line about to be executed. > But when stepping through code compiled dynamically as above, the > current line's source code is not available to pdb, and thus does not > display. > > Does anyone know a way to compile the dynamic code so that pdb can > 'see' the source? I suppose I could write it all out to a bunch of > temp files, but that would be terribly messy. Are there any neater > solutions?
You coud monkey-patch the getline function in the linecache module, so that it is able to find your dynamically generated code. IMO that is what pdb uses.c Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
