Bugs item #1526834, was opened at 2006-07-22 00:03
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.5
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Ilya Sandler (isandler)
>Assigned to: A.M. Kuchling (akuchling)
Summary: unbalanced parentheses from command line crash pdb
Initial Comment:
bagira:~/python-svn/patches> cat simple
print 123
bagira:~/python-svn/patches> ../python/trunk/python -m
pdb simple
(Pdb) b f( #crashes your program
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
File "/home/ilya/python-svn/python/trunk/Lib/sre.py",
line 233, in _compile
raise error, v # invalid expression
error: unbalanced parenthesis
Uncaught exception. Entering post mortem debugging
(Pdb) b f( # doing it post-mortem fully crashes pdb
Traceback (most recent call last):
..
raise error, v # invalid expression
sre_constants.error: unbalanced parenthesis
bagira:~/python-svn/patches>
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>Comment By: A.M. Kuchling (akuchling)
Date: 2006-07-27 08:38
Message:
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Easily fixed by adding a re.escape() call, but this means
that 'b f()', if you've been doing that, will no longer work
to set a breakpoint. The documentation doesn't claim that
'b f()' should work, but people may be used to typing this.
I've asked the 2.5 release manager about this issue.
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