Pdb-clone
lastmod 2018-08-17created 2015-03-061 edits
A clone of pdb, fast and with the remote debugging and attach features.
Features
- Implement the most recent Python 3 features of pdb, as defined in the Python 3 pdb documentation. The pdb command line interface remains unchanged except for the new detach and thread pdb commands.
- Improve significantly pdb performance. With breakpoints, pdb-clone runs just below the speed of the interpreter while pdb runs 10 to 100 times slower than the interpreter.
- Extend pdb with remote debugging. A remote debugging session may be started when the program stops at a pdb.set_trace_remote() hard-coded breakpoint, or at any time and multiple times by attaching to the process main thread.
- Fix pdb long standing bugs entered in the Python issue tracker.
- Add a bdb comprehensive test suite (more than 70 tests) and run both pdb and bdb test suites.
How to install
Install it as follows.
Note that as of 2015-03-06, pdb-clone 1.10 registered on PyPi does not compile properly when downloaded in a Windows environment.
Install pdb-clone 1.9.2 separately from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pdb-clone.