Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Debugging PyObjc Apps

[Ronald O. <ous...@ci...>]

On Saturday, Feb 1, 2003, at 21:23 Europe/Amsterdam, Just van Rossum 
wrote:

> bb...@ma... wrote:
>
>> I did confirm that the Wing IDE works with PyObjC correctly,
>> including the debugger.
>
> Ah, that's cool. I've never tried it, even though I got a CD at the
> EuroPython conference...
>
> [OT: Speaking of conferences: is anyone going to PyCon? I'm not, but it
> would be great if someone could do a PyObjC talk there. It's in DC, so
> Bill is pretty closeby (compared to me, Ronald and Jack at least ;-) so
> I think we should elect him as the official representative ;-]

I've pondered about writing an abstract, but I had too much to do at 
the time...

>
>> Obviously, there is a big issue with the way app startup happens.
>> The situation may improve with an embedded interpreter-- certainly
>> makes it possible to use gdb directly-- but I'm not 100% sure.
>
> 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.

Maybe we should combine PDB with your TelnetInspector. Does that have 
any change of working?

Ronald