Re: [Pyobjc-dev] pdb in PyObjC apps?

[Bob I. <bo...@re...>]

On Monday, Aug 18, 2003, at 16:49 America/New_York, Zachery Bir wrote:

> Anyone found a way to integrate the python debugger (pdb) with a 
> PyObjC application? I made the mistake of trying it, and it clogged up 
> my Console.app and I had to use Force Quit to stop my app.

You can probably use it pretty much the same way you would normally use 
pdb.  There's probably a couple snags (NSApplicationMain will probably 
kill the interpreter when the runloop stops, AppHelper.runEventLoop 
will probably try and catch all your exceptions, etc.), but you didn't 
really give enough information about your problem.  You should be more 
concise about exactly what you did, especially how it was executed 
(WindowServer is picky about these things).  You should also include 
some sample code (preferably stripped down to just enough to show the 
problem), and define what "clogged up my Console.app" means.

> Should we be using the Project Builder's debugger? Will that work?

Not unless you're debugging Python itself, or an extension written in 
C, C++, Objective C :)  Project Builder's debugger is just a gdb 
frontend.

-bob