From e385644f5f32eee1d5007119de3c47c589545176 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bnewbold <bnewbold@robocracy.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 13:59:23 +0100
Subject: python: pdb instructions

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 software/python.page | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

(limited to 'software')

diff --git a/software/python.page b/software/python.page
index cd1fb0b..b0a01e0 100644
--- a/software/python.page
+++ b/software/python.page
@@ -114,3 +114,16 @@ To do interactive pdb debugging, simply:
     $ nosetests --pdb-failures
 
 
+pdb
+-------
+To debug a script (interactive prompt on exception):
+
+    python -m pdb myscript.py
+
+or in-line, always at a particular point:
+
+    import pdb; pdb.set_trace()
+
+Use ipdb (debian: python-ipdb) instead of pdb to get a nicer IPython prompt.
+
+
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