[issue4353] Move description what a trace should should return to settrace from pdb section into sys.settrace section

2008-11-19 Thread rocky bernstein
New submission from rocky bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: This sentence: The local trace function should return a reference to itself (or to another function for further tracing in that scope), or None to turn off tracing in that scope. which appears under "How it [the debugger] W

[issue4725] reporting file locations in egg (and other package) files

2008-12-22 Thread rocky bernstein
New submission from rocky bernstein : When listing a traceback or showing stack frames or implementing a debugger (or a tool which wants to track the exact location of the source code), how is one supposed to detect a file located inside an egg or some other archive mechanism? There are a

[issue4725] reporting file locations in egg (and other package) files

2008-12-22 Thread rocky bernstein
rocky bernstein added the comment: > > Martin v. Löwis added the comment: > > If this message is about multiple issues (as the second paragraph > suggests), they should be reported separately. As it stands, this is too > much text for me to consider, and it might be

[issue5343] remove or make work pdb retval and rv

2009-02-21 Thread rocky bernstein
New submission from rocky bernstein : Remove pdb's undocumented"retval"/"rv" debugger commands. It is conceivable this may have once worked on a version of Python long ago, but not in recent releases. If it's of interest to make this work, one approach would be t

[issue1531859] Tracing and profiling functions can cause hangs in threads

2009-03-30 Thread rocky bernstein
rocky bernstein added the comment: Well, in the over 3 years since this has last been looked at, I wouldn't be surprised if someone else noticed the problem and therefore it has since been fixed. Was version 2.6 released back in January '06? Python news seems to indication that Octob

[issue9237] Add sys.call_tracing to on-line sys module documentation

2010-07-12 Thread rocky bernstein
New submission from rocky bernstein : sys.call_tracing doesn't appear in Python documents and I think it should. For a start, one could use the docstring from sysmodule.c: call_tracing(func, args) -> object Call func(*args), while tracing is enabled. The tracing state is sa