Cannot just put pdb.py in $PYTHONPATH to install (as mentioned in README)

[Maltimore]

In the README it says that you can just put the relevant pdb.py file in a directory mentioned in the pythonpath in order to install pdbpp. This doesn't work because then fancycompleter isn't installed and you get an import error.

[blueyed]

Yeah, that's probably outdated / should get fixed/removed.

The plan is to make the fancycompleter dependency optional though, which mainly means to adopt/vendor its classes (ConfigurableClass, which should get revisited then also) / fix color imports.

I'd be happy to merge a PR fixing the readme for now, or might look into it myself later.

[Maltimore]

I'm happy to make a PR updating the README. Should the instruction be to

• install fancycompleter with pip/conda
• copy the pdb.py into somewhere under the $PYTHONPATH?

By the way the pdb.py is actually called pdbpp.py and needs to be renamed when copying, I can mention that also.

[blueyed]

@Maltimore
I've revisited it myself in #378 - please review.

I do not think copying pdbpp.py manually is a good idea - at least for a README. I'm often symlinking it myself etc (since editable installs are not really working with regard to the hijacking) for some repos/checkouts, but that is something more advanced.

And using pip for installation should take care of dependencies already.
Note however that pyrepl is optional (IIRC), but certainly improves the completion experience.