On 2014-01-03 04:17, Sean Murphy wrote:
Team,
I am a Vision Impaired programmer on the Mac and Window platforms. I have
started to learn Python. The biggest road block I have is the ability of
debugging my simple scripts. The IDLE program does not work with the screen
readers I use on the Mac or Windows. A screen reader is a program that grabs
the text on the screen and converts it into speech output, at least this is the
50000 feet explanation. I cannot see the screen at all.
I have looked at eclipse and it doesn't work with Voice-Over (the screen reader
on the Mac). I have java issues on my windows machine preventing me running
this app.
If I use $python -d script.py the debugger doesn't seem to trigger on the mac.
So how I can perform a debug on a script so I can step through it, set up break
points, watch variables, etc.
It is really annoying me, since under Perl I just added the -d switch and had a
full debugger that worked at the console level.
Python also has a console debugger. -d does not invoke it; -d is for something
else.
$ python -m pdb myscript.py
http://docs.python.org/3.3/library/pdb
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Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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