Have a gander at Boa Constructor.
YOu can certainly go to a shell when debugging. (ie set breakpoint) then the shell is attached to that context.
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Ashot wrote:
This is sort of both Python and Vim related (which is why I've posted to both newsgroups).
Python related:
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I have been frustrated for quite some time with a lack of a history command in IDLE (in fact with IDLE in general). Often I'll develop new code at the command line, testing each line as I go. Currently I have to copy and paste, removing outputs and the ">>>" at each line.
Is it perhaps possible to make some kind of hack to do this (dump a command history)?
Idle in general isn't that great IMO, so I was wondering also if there are better alternatives out there? What do people use mostly? I've tried something called pyCrust, but this too didn't have history and some other things I was looking for. On a more general note, although the agility and simplicity of Python make programming tools like an IDE less necessary, it still seems that Python is lacking in this departement. The PyDev plug-in for Eclipse seems like good step in this direction, although I haven't tried it yet. Does anyone have any experience with this, or perhaps can point me to other tools.
Vim related:
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Ideally, it would be nice to have a command mapped to a keystroke that can append the last executed command to a file. Even better would be a system that would integrate the file editing and interactive command line tool more seamlessly. Something along the lines of a debugger + file editor + command line utility, where file editor = vim. I know that vim has a utility for running python commands from its command prompt, but I have had a hard time getting this to work in windows and haven't explored it. Has anyone seen/tried a system along these lines, perhaps incorporating the python debugger (pdb)? I can see something that will run the file you are editing in vim up to the cursor or a mark with a set_trace at the line you are editing.
Any info is appreciated, thanks.
-- Ashot Petrosian University of Texas at Austin, Computer Sciences
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