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Winpdb 1.4.6 Tychod Released

Winpdb 1.4.6 Tychod is now available for download at http://winpdb.org/download. As of this version Winpdb can debug runaway recursions. Runway recursions are an Achilles Heel of all Python debuggers. Since debugger logic is invoked with each new script frame, recursion limit is naturally hit by debugger code causing it to break down surprised, corrupted and defeated. First among its kind, Winpdb now handles recursions gallantly, effortlessly, with a smile. Try it.

Winpdb 1.4.4 Tychod Released

Winpdb 1.4.4 Tychod is available for download at http://winpdb.org/download. The new version fixes a major regression to exception analysis.

Winpdb 1.4.2 Tychod Released

Winpdb 1.4.2 Tychod is available for download at http://winpdb.org/download. The new version is compatible with Python 3.0 rc2. GNU/Linux users, please use the source package. Windows users with Python 2.6 or later, please read the instructions in the download page.

Stani Michiels

Stani Michiels, the author of Stani’s Python Editor (SPE) who is also an architect and artist won a design contest for a new Dutch commemorative 5 Euro coin. Here is the full story as told by him: http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-to-make-money-with-free-software.html

Stani is also the one who started me working on Winpdb three years ago when he was looking for a debugger for SPE.

Congratulations Stani!

Winpdb 1.4.0 Tychod Released

Winpdb 1.4.0 Tychod is available for download. It is now compatible with Python 2.6 and 3.0 beta 2 and the step-into-child-process functionality is working again. The full list of changes is available at the download page.

Did you know that on GNU/Linux Winpdb allows you to magically step into a spawned child process?

A Mailing List is Born

As if the world needed another mailing list, a new Google Group mailing list has been created to which you can post anything related to Winpdb: http://groups.google.com/group/winpdb

Debugging Explained

Chris Lasher recently migrated his excellent tutorial on Winpdb and debugging in general to the Winpdb Wiki. Thanks Chris!

A Wiki for Winpdb

I have set up an initial Wiki for Winpdb in response to a comment by BobC about collaboration. In addition Winpdb is now published as a Mercurial repository at: winpdb.org/cgi-bin/hgweb.cgi

The Wiki is about development of Winpdb. Now its up to you. Send patches, ideas and good will. Collaborate and make Winpdb better.

Winpdb 1.3.8 Tychod Released

Winpdb 1.3.8 Tychod is available for download. It includes some improvements to the name space viewer, a workaround to a segmentation fault in mod_python and some other bug fixes. The full list of changes is available at the download page.

Check this out: For the first time Winpdb has a codename. The first to guess right what this codename stands for will win a FREE copy of Winpdb Tychod!

Winpdb 1.3.6 Released

Winpdb 1.3.6 is available for download, this time with a couple of bug fixes and compatibility with Python alpha 3 and Python 2.6 alpha 1. You can grab it from here.

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