On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:17:20 -0700, Steve Ferg wrote: > In this little script: > > <pre> > import pdb > pdb.set_trace() > def main(): > xm = 123 > print("Hello,world!") > main() > </pre> > > When I run this, I use pdb to step through it until I reach the point in > main() where the xm variable has been initialized, and then I try to use > pdb to reset the value of xm, and I can't. > > Does anybody know why? > > As I understand the documentation, > http://docs.python.org/library/pdb.html I *should* be able to do this. > > [!]statement > Execute the (one-line) statement in the context of the current stack > frame. > > Is there something about "in the context of the current stack frame" > that I don't understand? Or is it a bug (or a limitation) in pdb?
I should have added my version: Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Jun 17 2010, 13:37:45) [GCC 4.4.1 [gcc-4_4-branch revision 150839]] on linux2 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list