debugger does not print error message by default in 0.11

[jorgsk]

With pdb OFF

In [10]: some_variable
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
NameError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
/home/jorgsk/ in ()
----> 1 some_variable

NameError: name 'some_variable' is not defined

As expected.

With pdb ON

In [12]: some_variable
> (1)()
     -1 some_variable

There is no error message. I have to quit with 'q':

ipdb> q
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
NameError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
/home/jorgsk/ in ()
----> 1 some_variable

NameError: name 'some_variable' is not defined

I think the error message should be given when entering the debugging mode, or is this an intended behavior in 0.11?

[jni]

I'm seeing this issue as well, and it didn't exist in iPython 0.10. It's extremely irritating. Now I have to always hit the error at least twice: once to see what the error actually is, and another to debug it with the automated pdb invocation.

[fperez]

yup, definitely a bug. As a workaround in the meantime, you can turn pdb off, and type manually %debug when you want to enter debug mode. At least then you'll see the traceback. But we do need to fix this one, thanks for the report!

[minrk]

closed by #876