[issue24996] IDLE: debugger local/global vars should not be editable

Change by Terry J. Reedy : -- versions: +Python 3.10 -Python 3.6, Python 3.7 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing

[issue24996] IDLE: debugger local/global vars should not be editable

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I believe an Entry validator can reject all keystrokes. It seem feasible that globals could be changed. I could look at what pdb can do and if so, how. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue24996] IDLE: debugger local/global vars should not be editable

Changes by Terry J. Reedy : -- assignee: -> terry.reedy components: +IDLE stage: -> test needed versions: +Python 3.7 -Python 2.7, Python 3.4, Python 3.5 ___ Python tracker

[issue24996] IDLE: debugger local/global vars should not be editable

New submission from Mark Roseman: In the debugger, the values for the variables shown in the locals/globals panes are editable (i.e. using Entry widget) but I don't see any mechanism to have those changes affect anything. If I'm not missing something, why Entry and not Label? --

[issue24996] IDLE: debugger local/global vars should not be editable

Mark Roseman added the comment: Thanks Terry, sorry I missed your previous mention of this. From what I recall the treeview doesn't allow editable items, but what I've done in similar circumstances before (editing text items on a canvas in drawing type programs) was 'place' an entry widget on

[issue24996] IDLE: debugger local/global vars should not be editable

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I already brought this up as part of one of the StackViewer/Debugger/merge issues. Replacing the list with a tree would automatically change this unless the tree was changed to have a entry. Why? My speculation is an intention never carried out. Labels

[issue24996] IDLE: debugger local/global vars should not be editable

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: That makes sense, given that a string or list could be indefinitely long. -- ___ Python tracker ___