debugging, otrace, tracing
GraphTerm was originally developed as a graphical front-end for otrace, an object-oriented python debugger. Any Python program can serve as a "host" and be connected to the GraphTerm server using the gotrace
command:
gotrace example.py
The above command loads example.py
as a module and connects to the GraphTerm server for debugging. This program will appear in the list of hosts under the name example
. Open the terminal session example/osh
to connect to the otrace console, and issue the run <function>
command to begin executing a function in example.py
. You can also initiate program execution directly from the command line as follows:
gotrace -f test example.py arg1 arg2
The above command executes the function test(arg=[])
in example.py
, where arg
is a list of string arguments from the command line.
If you wish to use the otrace console features for multiplexing, without actually needing to a debug a program, you can use the --oshell
option when using gtermhost
to connect to the server.
(You can also embed code in a Python program to directly connect to the GraphTerm server for monitoring/debugging. See gotrace.py
to find out how it can be done.)