Please tell me which features you wish your current Python debugger had. I'm creating a new Python IDE/debugger and am looking forward to challenging requests!
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The #1 debug feature for me (that my current IDE, Wing, does happen to have) is the ability to drop into a python interpreter and run arbitrary python code when at a breakpoint. Reminds me of using Smalltalk back in the day.
Ability to execute code in local scope is incredibly useful, especially in contrast to working in C++ when it can sometimes be a fight to inspect a local variable.
zweiterlinde
2009-03-01 20:22:05
I'd love that. Wing IDE is really impressive. Wish it was free-er.
Seun Osewa
2009-03-01 20:28:29
That is what PDB allows you to do anyway, so its nothing extra Wing is giving you. Wing is a good tool, of course.
ironfroggy
2009-03-02 00:56:29
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Forgive me for the shameless functional programming plug, but...
The ability to step backwards.
zweiterlinde
2009-03-01 20:23:28
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I would love a debugger that could somehow split into two when a thread was created, then I could watch both threads with independent call stacks, etc.
If it exists, then I just haven't found it yet.
Chris Cameron
2009-03-01 20:42:24