By now, you have probably found an IDE that gives you satisfactory debugging. I think your original problem was trying to use an emacs shell (M-x shell) to run Python interpreter. But the emacs Python mode works a whole better than Python in a dumb terminal.
Have you tried the following? -- open Python source file in emacs -- expect to see that the buffer is in Python mode, so when you select it, "Python" appears on the modeline and the emacs menu bar, and describe-mode gives mucho info. -- from the emacs Python menu (or Xemacs right click to get Python popup), select "Start interpreter", or just C-c ! keys. -- again from Python source buffer, selectPython "Execute buffer" or C-c C-c keys. -- if the source has pdb.set_trace() as previous post suggested, the interpreter buffer will stop there, and in fact pdb.py will appear in another emacs buffer. -- in the interpreter, type n Enter --now you'll see the desired pointer in a temp copy of your Python source or whatever imported Python library you find yourself. With emacs/Python syntax highlighting (M-x font-lock-fontify-buffer), it's not bad. The one true editor is always worth the effort :) HTH. "Rex Eastbourne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > One thing: is it possible to go through the code within emacs? Doing it > on the command line is useful, but it would be very helpful if I could > have a little marker within the emacs buffer that showed me where I am. > > Rex > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
