ken...@gameofy.com writes: > I'm using exec() to run a (multi-line) string of python code. If an > exception occurs, I get a traceback containing a stack frame for the > string. I've labeled the code object with a "file name" so I can > identify it easily, and when I debug, I find that I can interact with > the context of that stack frame, which is pretty handy. > > What I would like to also be able to do is make the code string > visible to the debugger so I can look at and step through the code in > the string as if it were from a python file.
The debugger may not be prepared for this kind of source; thus, you might need a much more intelligent debugger. The "exec" itself works with arbitary strings, not only with string constants coming from a source file. It has no way to reliably associate a filename and a line number in the respective file with the code lines. The debugger (at least currently) expects to locate the source code in a file (maybe an archive) given a line number in that file. Based on this, I expect that your wish will be difficult to fulfill. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
