Re: [Jython-users] Jython debugger?

[Brett M. <br...@st...>]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 07:17:44PM -0700, Frank Cohen didst scribe:
> I embed Jython into TestMaker to provide a scripting language for building
> intelligent test agents. A TestMaker user is interested in a Jython
> debugger. I was wondering if anyone knew of such a thing?
> 
> Details on TestMaker are at http://www.pushtotest.com/ptt
> 
> -Frank
> 
> 
> Hello Frank,
> 
> Thanks for the reference.
> 
> The instructions are below.  I will update you as I enhance my
> configuration and gather more information.
> 
> I am still on the prowl for a debugger.  Does Forte debug Jython?  Do
> you know of any Open Source, Free, or even inexpensive Jython debugger?
> 
> Thanks,
> Dan

Dan, out of interest, what are you looking for in a debugger that isn't
in jython already? You can single step through programs just by cutting
and pasting. You have effortless ability to interrogate in memory data
structures using jython. You can write up jython scripts which set up
a testing environment, and then start them up using jython -i file.py ...

Admittedly, it isn't cute and gooey, but from my p.o.v. the gooey tracking
environments lack the expressivity of a true programming language ...

(yeah, yeah, my primary mode of thinking is textual instead of visual)

Does the Idle fork have a debugging environment? Can Komodo be co-opted?

brett

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