It is difficult to debug a Python 3 program

Bug #1126411 reported by Dylan McCall
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This bug affects 4 people
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winpdb (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

Winpdb supports Python 3, but its main interface is not yet compatible with Python 3. However, the included remote debugger, rpdb2, _is_. One can debug a Python 3 program by running rpdb2 with python3, then attaching to that process from winpdb, but this is tedious and clumsy. (First, we have to create a link to /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rpdb2.py from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages, then we have to run python3 /usr/bin/rpdb2 with the necessary command line).

It would be very helpful to provide built in Python 3 support in some fashion. An additional rpdb2-python3 launcher (with the necessary symlinks) would help a lot, and a flag for winpdb that causes it to use that launcher itself would be perfect.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in winpdb (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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