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devhawk edited this page Sep 13, 2010 · 7 revisions

ipydbg is a debugger for IronPython applications. As IronPython doesn’t implement sys.settrace (yet), the standard Python debugger pdb doesn’t work. Instead of settrace, ipydbg uses the underlying CLR debugging API. It leverages some code from the MDbg command line debugger that ships in the .NET Framework SDK.

ipydbg is written by Harry Pierson, program manager for the IronPython project at Microsoft. He writes the weblog DevHawk and he has chronicled the ongoing development of ipydbg there.

Existing Functionality

automatically break on first line of python code
step into, over and out
Just-My-Code (so can bypass stepping thru the IronPython implementation
Stack trace (Python only and full)

Features in active development

View Locals
Debugger REPL
Breakpoint Manager
Command Routing System

Features to be implemented

function evaluation
View Globals
Stack Frame Traversal
Help System
Setting in-scope variables
showing fields for classes