Winpdb - A Platform Independent Python Debugger 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!
Winpdb for Python 3.0beta1
For those of you who like living on the bleeding (and buggy) edge of the software world I have uploaded a version of Winpdb compatible with Python 3.0beta1 and Python 2.6beta1 to the mercurial repository: http://winpdb.org/cgi-bin/hgweb.cgi. Instructions are available at http://winpdb.org/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/WinpdbSource
If you find anything that got broken with this update please let me know.
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Quiet
It has been rather quiet lately with Winpdb. I have been gradually getting less and less feedback, bug reports and requests either here or in the sourceforge pages. Since it is being downloaded as usual I can only assume it is a sign of maturity. Maybe it just works.
On the other hand I have [...]
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 [...]
A Call for Contributions
Winpdb has always been a little spartan. On purpose actually, since I prefer to invest my available energy on endlessly improving and fixing the debugger engine (rpdb2). In fact, the Winpdb GUI was originally intended as a simple reference front end to rpdb2.
The time, however, has come to make long due usability improvements to the [...]
A Python Cyborg
Python is a kind of brain extension. With its help thoughts instantly become working programs.
mod_python’s Fault
mod_python 3.3 causes a segmentation fault in Apache when evaluating type(req.finfo) where req is the request object passed to a mod_python handler.
In case you wondered who on earth would try to evaluate that expression, Winpdb does, if you try to expand the req object in the namespace viewer.
But don’t you worry, there is a work [...]
The Kernighan Extension
Understanding is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to understand it.
–Nir
