Re: [Pydev-code] PyDev Development first-step help

[Kurosch P. <ku...@ze...>]

Hello Fabio,

thanks for that reply.

Further explanation follows:


>> I want implement some features into PyDev and would like to know whether
>> there is some documentation for development.
>>
>
> As for documentation, I think you probably found:
> http://pydev.org/developers.html (which gives details on getting the code
> and tips on running it locally).

Thanks for that pointer I did find that already, and thought there would
be more to it.
I would like to know whether I should use Jython or Java for the add-ons I
want to implement.

>>
>> Features I want to add are:
>>  # hoare calculus plugin for code verification,
>>
> Well, I'm not sure what exactly you'd be verifying here, but as a
> reference
> you can probably use the visitor pattern to visit the files -- you should
> probably create a subclass of org.python.pydev.builder.PyDevBuilderVisitor
> (you can go to that class and press F4 in JDT to see those).

I wanted to use jAlgos(http://j-algo.binaervarianz.de/) Hoare
functionality and change it from C0 (a simple C dialect) to python, so
that it is possible to verify ones code using Hoare functionality. This
would be basically an extra plugin, which will need to access the code
from the editor somehow, or I will need to extend the editor to be able to
use that functionality.


>>  # some nice variable visualization for teaching purposes,
>>
>
> Well, you probably need to give more details on what's the visualization
> here in order to help you better...

Basically I want to make some visualization for variables in debug, so
that it is easier to understand if you do not know much about debugging
and/or programming. Ofcourse this will mostlikly only work for some basic
variables first (like array, vector, int, bool..)


>
>>  # some profiling of the code,
>>
>
> There was a patch for a profiler once (
> http://sourceforge.net/p/pydev/bugs/635/) but it didn't get integrated
> (needs some work). It may be something you can take a look at... (the
> patch is at that link).
>
Thank you; it seems that this patch is nearly finished and just needs some
cleaning and implementing your suggestions obviously.
I would also add some other profiling like program depth.
I think this (http://pycallgraph.slowchop.com/en/master/) would also be
useful for cProfiler. It creates a "call graph" of the python programm.



>>  # a mouse hover over functionality to show variable values like in the
>> visual basic editor
>>
>
> That'd be nice (but I'm not sure exactly what'd be needed, so, not sure I
> can help you well there).
>
Well for this I need to register a timer to the editor window, so that if
the mouse stays at one point a given time, lets say 5sec, it will start
the debugger in the background with a breakpoint at the given line and
requesting the value of the variable underneath the mouse pointer. So my
question is, is it possible to run the debugger in the background with
some breakpoint set and getting the wanted variable value? I tried doiung
this running jython and pdb, but unfortuatly accessing pdb through jython
is not possible as far as I managed.


>>  # and if possible some step back functionality to go a step back in
>> debugging.
>>
>
> Actually, that already exists: in the debug view, you can choose run > set
> next statement (Ctrl+Alt+R) -- mainly, you can select what should be the
> next statement -- python has some limitations on that (such as not being
> able to jump anywhere -- it must be a place in the current frame -- and in
> the same stack -- i.e.: you can't go from an except: block back into the
> code that generated the exception as that'd be a different block for
> python), but aside from those, it works pretty well.
>
Well if this is already implemented till the point of python limitation
than there is this one done.


Thanks,

Kurosch