Pdb vs TerminalPdb

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Hi,

I'm looking to integrate the IPython debugger with a library I'm developing.

I've been playing around with Pdb and TerminalPdb. Based on the documentaion, the difference is that TerminalPdb is a "standalone version that uses prompt_toolkit".

I took a look at the prompt_toolkit documentation and it is a tool geared towards CLI applications (which I think explains why TerminalPdb doesn't work in a Jupyter notebook):

AttributeError: 'ZMQInteractiveShell' object has no attribute 'editing_mode'

It seems that my best bet is to integrate with Pdb when my library is running on a Jupyter notebook and with TerminalPdb when running on a terminal, but I'm wondering whether there are any other differences.

Thanks!