Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Debugging PyObjc Apps

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On Saturday, Feb 1, 2003, at 15:23 US/Eastern, Just van Rossum wrote:
> I don't think gdb helps all that much when debugging Python. The Python
> debugger (bdb.py/pdb.py) is pure Python, so the startup funkiness
> shouldn't get in the way there.

It helps when something on the compiled side of the bridge crashes... 
:-)

In all seriousness, it can help if you want to catch when a particular 
method on the standard kit of objects is invoked.  In particular, 
setting a breakpoint on NSException's -raise can be very useful in 
determining where the app was in the request/response loop when the 
badness started.

At some point, we really should add a 'debug' module to AppKit or 
Foundation that provides a quick way of starting up pdb and gives some 
kind of a trivial console type interface for interacting with it.  I 
haven't looked at pdb;  does it do remote debugging?

b.bum