Interactive Python Debugger, IPython-interface to pdb
ipdb exports functions to access the IPython debugger, which features tab completion, syntax highlighting, better tracebacks, better introspection with the same interface as the pdb module.
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how to break out of ipdb debugger?
How do you exit the ipdb debugger? According to this question typing q should just work. I am on Python 3.6.6, Ipython 6.4.0 and that does not work in the following context: I have a function, f(x), that is called from another function in a loop.…
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Tab completion in ipdb not working when output is processed
Sometimes I resort to using ipdb for debugging a Python script, which has a very nice autocomplete feature.
The problem is, the script usually runs through a shell pipeline that processes its output (for instance python script.py |& tee…
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Debug and run mode in Jupyter
Like in matlab, is there a possiblity in Jupyter to run a function in debug mode where execution is suspended at breakpoints and in run mode the function ignores the breakpoints?
In a simple example like
from IPython.core.debugger import…
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(i)PDB post mortem when using 'unittest discover'
Most of the times when I run my tests, I do this via python -m unittest discover (I'm lazy).
Lets say that one of the tests raises an exception. Is there a way to make unittest framework run a post-mortem on it (preferably ipdb.pm()), without…
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How to recover from exception when debugging python?
When stepping through the code in pdb, any exception hit immediately ends the program. How do I instead fix the exception and keep debugging? Is there no way to avoid the overhead of restarting the program?
It seems like many py debuggers share this…
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IPython notebook: debugging by stopping the execution at specific point
i want to interactively debug code that is deeply hidden in some class.
I know that it is possible open the ipdb using
from IPython.core.debugger import Pdb
Pdb().set_trace()
This work also in ipython (jupyter) notebook.
Another possibility that I…
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eventlet.monkey_patch() breaks ipdb in docker container
So I am using the micro-servicing python package nameko which runs a service using eventlet and calls eventlet.monkey_patch() on import.
I have deciphered that it is this piece of code that is blocking any debug attempts via ipdb. The ipdb console…
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python input lag when debugging phantomJS webdriver
so I was trying to debug the tests we have running django/phantomjs/selenium-webdrive with ipdb, but the interactive debugger input was too slow, I need to hold a key for 3-5 seconds to get that character written down.
so I tracked it down and find…
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why help() command under ipdb gives an error
In ipython I can issue following command and it gives me help:
In [1]: help(["foo", "bar", "baz"])
class list(object)
| list() -> new empty list
| list(iterable) -> new list initialized from iterable's items
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| Methods defined here:
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| …
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Execute commands automatically when ipdb starts
I usually debug a python script with the help of the ipdb debugger by putting the following line into the source code:
import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace()
Then when I run the script, ipdb starts. Very often I need to plot numpy arrays in an interactive…
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Which python interpreter is ipdb using?
I am asking because I encounter something very strange. The following method throws an exception when called from within a script:
def gaussian_blur(self, in_array, size):
# expand in_array to fit edge of kernel
padded_array =…
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How can I assign to the ipython global namespace from within ipdb?
I have a traceback in an IPython notebook that I'm debugging with the %debug magic. I'd like to assign one of the objects in the traceback frame to a variable in the IPython global namespace, so that I can mess with it outside the ipdb prompt (which…
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ipdb / set_trace() hanging
I am new to using ipdb and following the examples have added
print "I see this print statement\n"
foo="bar"
import ipdb
ipdb.set_trace()
print "Never see this statement because program hangs:
print "But if the prior two debugging lines were removed…
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Rerun code while debugging and while reloading all modules
When debugging my Python code, I run a script through ipdb from the command line, and set a number of breakpoints. Then I make some changes in one or more modules, and rerun. However, if I simply use run modules do not get reloaded. To make sure…
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ipython style tab complete with ipdb for imported modules
I'm trying to get ipython style table complete with pdb by using ipdb.
On a clean ubuntu 14.04 install (new aws instance) I run.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -y
sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
sudo easy_install pip
sudo pip…
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