I've been trying to find decent debuggers for Python. The ones freely available are either too bulky or too error-prone. I would not need too many fancy features other than controlling the flow/variables values/stack view.
Having been a NPP fan for a long time now, I have been trying to find a decent Debugger plugin for Python. Can somebody point me to one ?
Re,
Sam
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I did manage to debug python using NPP. Thanks to the forum, i found a way to run Python scripts. And a little bit of searching on the Python forum did the trick for me.
Here's what i did:
1> Create a file debugpy.bat under installed location. [Not the Application data. Installed one. Ex: For me it was in C:\ProgramFiles]
set /P ARGV="Arguments: "
echo
if "%ARGV%"=="" cls
C:\Python25\python -m pdb %1 %ARGV%
echo
pause
3> Remember the path given in the previous step is the absolute path of the Python Interpreter location on your machine.
4> Now type %APPDATA%\Notepad++ in Run. A folder will open. This is your application dir for NPP.
Here you will find a file shortcuts.xml.
5> Add an entry to this file as follows:
<Command name="DebugPython" Ctrl="yes" Alt="no" Shift="yes" Key="122">$(NPP_DIRECTORY)\debugpy.bat "$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)"</Command>
This goes in the <UserDefinedCommands> section of the xml file. Save it.
[Remember to edit this using any editor other than NPP]
6> Fire up NPP. Open your python script to be debugged. Press Ctrl-Shift-F11. And voila!! The debugger of Python launches up.
8> note that removing "-m pdb" argument from your bat file will just run the file. I currently have 2 separate entries for run and debug, with diff key mappings in NPP.
Hope this helps all Python and NPP fans.
Regards,
Sam
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I've been trying to find decent debuggers for Python. The ones freely available are either too bulky or too error-prone. I would not need too many fancy features other than controlling the flow/variables values/stack view.
Having been a NPP fan for a long time now, I have been trying to find a decent Debugger plugin for Python. Can somebody point me to one ?
Re,
Sam
Folks,
I did manage to debug python using NPP. Thanks to the forum, i found a way to run Python scripts. And a little bit of searching on the Python forum did the trick for me.
Here's what i did:
1> Create a file debugpy.bat under installed location. [Not the Application data. Installed one. Ex: For me it was in C:\ProgramFiles]
2> The contents of the bat file are as follows:
@echo off
set /P ARGV="Arguments: "
echo
if "%ARGV%"=="" cls
C:\Python25\python -m pdb %1 %ARGV%
echo
pause
3> Remember the path given in the previous step is the absolute path of the Python Interpreter location on your machine.
4> Now type %APPDATA%\Notepad++ in Run. A folder will open. This is your application dir for NPP.
Here you will find a file shortcuts.xml.
5> Add an entry to this file as follows:
<Command name="DebugPython" Ctrl="yes" Alt="no" Shift="yes" Key="122">$(NPP_DIRECTORY)\debugpy.bat "$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)"</Command>
This goes in the <UserDefinedCommands> section of the xml file. Save it.
[Remember to edit this using any editor other than NPP]
6> Fire up NPP. Open your python script to be debugged. Press Ctrl-Shift-F11. And voila!! The debugger of Python launches up.
7> The "pdb" debugger is provided as part of the Python standard package. You may need to know the debugger commands to make use of it effectively. Please refer to http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.4/lib/debugger-commands.html
8> note that removing "-m pdb" argument from your bat file will just run the file. I currently have 2 separate entries for run and debug, with diff key mappings in NPP.
Hope this helps all Python and NPP fans.
Regards,
Sam
I forgot to thank the forum thread which helped me in achieving this.
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=2189443&forum_id=331754
thanks to all the folks who have posted on the above thread.
regards,
Sam