ipython showing gibberish when debugging Django with Netbeans

Question

I'm using Netbeans for coding Django. When I insert:

import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace()

Flow execution gets stopped but it shows gibberish, such as:

[1;32m/path/to/file/models.py[0m(344)[0;36macceptBid[1;34m()[0m
[1;32m    343 [1;33m        [1;32mimport[0m [1;37mipdb[0m[1;33m;[0m [1;37mipdb[0m[1;33m.[0m[1;37mset_trace[0m[1;33m([0m[1;33m)[0m[1;33m[0m[0m
[0m[1;32m--> 344 [1;33m        [1;32mreturn[0m [1;37mself[0m[1;33m.[0m[1;37msenderId[0m[1;33m([0m[1;33m)[0m [1;33m==[0m [1;37muser_obj[0m[1;33m.[0m[1;37mid[0m[1;33m[0m[0m
[0m[1;32m    345 [1;33m[1;33m[0m[0m
[0m

I can use next, skip and everything from pdb. But I can not see where I'm in the code, which forces me to use pdb instead of ipdb.

Answer 1

These are ANSI escape codes, which are used for the text colours in ipdb's output. For some reason, the terminal you're debugging in is not accepting the codes and is printing them as text. You may be able to find a setting in NetBeans to either change what the terminal is reporting itself as, or what it actually accepts.

Answer 2

What I have done to be able to use ipdb with Django Netbeans, is disable coloring output in ipdb. There are several ways to do this. If you have installed ipdb through easy_install you can edit the code in __init__.py leaving it like:

import sys
from IPython.Debugger import Pdb
from IPython.Shell import IPShell
from IPython import ipapi

shell = IPShell(argv=[''])

def set_trace():
    Pdb("NoColor").set_trace(sys._getframe().f_back)

Also you can create yourself a hook to import ipdb without colors. I hope this helps :)