Thanks for that info, Ned, I can now get the sys.argv[] list I need, that's a big help! However, is there any other way to set a breakpoint in idle that will work on Mac OS X, maybe entering a manual command somewhere with a specified line number? Inability to set a breakpoint is an absolute showstopper for me, the code I am trying to debug loops way too much to be manually steppable in a human time frame.
I also spent a couple of hours trying to get ddd to work, and oddly enough encountered a similar problem there. After downloading and installing pydb I was able to get things to start up OK. You can set a breakpoint, meaning that you can click on the source line and the little stop sign icon pops up right there as expected, but when you run the code the debugger just blows right by it like it's not even there. Does anyone out there have a fix for this? It sounds like ddd Python support is highly problematic at the moment, supposedly it works only with pydb but pydb's author has apparently moved on to a different debugger project (pydbgr?) that I suspect has little chance of working with ddd just yet. If anyone has evidence to the contrary please let me know! Are there any Python debuggers with a decent GUI out there at all that will work on a Mac with the following features: (i) ability to pass in a sys.srgv[] list that the program would otherwise see without the debugger, (ii) display local variables, (iii) single-step through the source code, and (iv) set a breakpoint? I think I can live without anything else for the moment. Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
