Charles Fox (Sheffield) wrote:
> Hi guys, I'm new to this group and have a question about debugging.
> I'm stepping through my code (using emacs pdbtrack and python-mode.el)
> and would like to isnpect objects as I go. So I've defined a little
> object print function,
>
> def p(obj):
> print obj
> print obj.__class__
> d=dir(obj)
> for a in d:
> print a, "=", getattr(obj, a)
>
>
> however it only works if the function is imported by whatever module I
> am currently debugging. I'd like it to be available globally so I can
> stop and inspect anything as I step through various modules (including
> external libraries). Is there a way to put it in the global scope for
> pdb to use? Also is there a way to automatically import it whenever
> pdb starts up (like a matlab startup file)? (I'm not using ipython
> as it's not happy with pdbtrack in emacs, so am launching from emacs M-
> x pdb command).
For debugging purposes it's OK to put your function into the __builtin__
namespace:
>>> def p(): print 42
...
>>> import __builtin__
>>> __builtin__.p = p
Try it out:
>>> with open("tmp.py", "w") as f:
... f.write("p()\n")
...
>>> import tmp
42
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