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pdb and winpdb both seem to be missing this essential (to me) feature. I saw something suggesting WingIDE has it but I'd prefer a solution that is free, and if I do have to pay, I'd prefer to pay for something that is better than Wing.

+1  A: 

Please look what pydev in eclipse offers...

gath
Care to add some links to examples?
Glyph
It looks like watchpoints are not yet implemented in pydev.http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02350.html
Paul D. Eden
A: 

Take a look at PyScripter. It has an integrated debugger, watch windows and much more. It's open source and is developed here.

HTH

PyScripter looks interesting but I'm on OS X and the P4D stuff appears to be only for Windows/Linux.
John
+3  A: 

You should check out Eric4

It's a very good Python IDE with a builtin debugger. The debugger has views for global variables, local variables and watchpoints.

Terje
A: 

It's too bad that the standard pdb module that comes with python itself does not yet support watchpoints.

Described here: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PdbImprovments

Paul D. Eden
+1  A: 

This reimplementation of the built-in pdb.py has watchpoints.

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2008/06/pdb-and-rlcompleterng.html

I tried it but, in cursory tries was not able to get it to work.

Paul D. Eden
Agreed. The 'watch' command did nothing.
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