Python Library Reference for the Extended Python Debugger

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Contents

• 1. The Extended Python Debugger
  • 1.1 Invoking the Debugger
    • 1.1.1 Debugger Command Options (-trace, -output, -command, -nx, ...)
    • 1.1.2 Startup files (.pydbrc)
  • 1.2 Debugger Commands
    • 1.2.1 Debugger Prompt
    • 1.2.2 Command Parsing
    • 1.2.3 Status and Debugger Settings (info, set, show)
    • 1.2.4 Breakpoints (break, tbreak, clear, commands, delete, disable, condition, ignore)
    • 1.2.5 Resuming Execution (step, next, finish, return, continue, jump, skip)
    • 1.2.6 Examining Call Frames (info args, info locals, down, frame, up)
    • 1.2.7 Examining Data (print, pprint, examine, info globals)
    • 1.2.8 Running Arbitrary Python Commands (debug, !, ipython, python)
    • 1.2.9 Starting/Restarting a Python Script (restart, run)
    • 1.2.10 Interfacing to the OS (cd, pwd, shell)
    • 1.2.11 Listing Program Code (list, disassemble)
    • 1.2.12 Interfacing to the debugger (alias, complete, help, quit, kill, save, source, unalias)
    • 1.2.13 Signal handling (handle, info handle, signal)
    • 1.2.14 Thread debugging (thread, info thread, qt, frame, break)
  • 1.3 The Debugger Module (pydb) and Class (Pdb)
    • 1.3.1 Calling the Debugger from Inside your Program (pydb.debugger)
    • 1.3.2 Calling the Debugger after a Crash: Post-Mortem Debugging (pydb.post_mortem, pydb.pm, pydb.exception_hook)
    • 1.3.3 Entering the Debugger from Outside the Program
    • 1.3.4 Entering the Debugger from Python or a Python Shell
    • 1.3.5 Yet Another Method of Invocation
    • 1.3.6 Inheritance from class Cmd
    • 1.3.7 Debugger Entry Functions
  • 1.4 The ``Basic'' Debugger module (bdb) and Classes Bdb and Breakpoint
  • 1.5 How the Debugger Works
  • 1.6 Files making up the Debugger
  • 1.7 Installation
    • 1.7.1 Installation options
• Index

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Python Library Reference for the Extended Python Debugger

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Release 2.5pydb, documentation updated on April 10, 2009.