How to restart ipdb while in debugging?

Question

My main goal is to restart ipdb, which should continue on the beginning on the code and catch on the first break-point.

# code.py

val = 10
print(f"Hello_World {val}")
__import__('ipdb').set_trace(context=5)
print("Goodbye_World")

run:

$ ./code.py
Hello_World 10
> /home/alper/eBlocBroker/doo.py(4)<module>()
      1 val = 10
      2 print(f"Hello_World {val}")
      3 __import__('ipdb').set_trace(context=5)
----> 4 print("Goodbye_World")   // right away catched here 

ipdb>

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[Q] At this point, I updated my code setting val into 11. Now, I want to restart the ipdb session (without closing it) and it should be catched on the same break point, is it possible?

• If I run as python3 -m ipdb code.py it does not start from the breakpoint instead it starts from top of the file, which I don't want.

If I type: restart I get following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "doo.py", line 4, in <module>
    print("Goodbye_World")
  File "doo.py", line 4, in <module>
    print("Goodbye_World")
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/bdb.py", line 88, in trace_dispatch
    return self.dispatch_line(frame)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/bdb.py", line 112, in dispatch_line
    self.user_line(frame)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/pdb.py", line 259, in user_line
    self.interaction(frame, None)
  File "/home/alper/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/IPython/core/debugger.py", line 305, in interaction
    OldPdb.interaction(self, frame, traceback)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/pdb.py", line 350, in interaction
    self._cmdloop()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/pdb.py", line 319, in _cmdloop
    self.cmdloop()
  File "/home/alper/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/IPython/terminal/debugger.py", line 126, in cmdloop
    stop = self.onecmd(line)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/pdb.py", line 416, in onecmd
    return cmd.Cmd.onecmd(self, line)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/cmd.py", line 217, in onecmd
    return func(arg)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/pdb.py", line 1026, in do_run
    raise Restart
pdb.Restart

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You can print a more detailed traceback right now with "%tb", or use "%debug"
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    %config Application.verbose_crash=True

Answer 1

• Ctrl-d Ctril-c to break the loop.
• Ctrl-d to restart the session

#!/bin/bash

control_c()
{
    printf goodbye
    # kill -SIGINT $(jobs -p)
    exit #$
}

trap control_c SIGINT

while true
do
    ./Driver.py
    # sleep 10 &
    wait
    printf "\n"
    # loop infinitely
done