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Subject: Re: Debugging on the Mac question.
From: Sean Murphy <mhysnm1964@gmail.com>
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Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 23:38:53 +1100
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PETER,

thanks Peter, I have already found the PDB module and have had a play =
with it. It will do for now.
On 03/01/2014, at 8:08 PM, Paul Rudin <paul.nospam@rudin.co.uk> wrote:

> Sean Murphy <mhysnm1964@gmail.com> writes:
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>> I am a Vision Impaired programmer on the Mac and Window platforms. I =
have
>> started to learn Python. The biggest road block I have is the ability =
of
>> debugging my simple scripts. The IDLE program does not work with the =
screen
>> readers I use on the Mac or Windows. A screen reader is a program =
that grabs
>> the text on the screen and converts it into speech output, at least =
this is the
>> 50000 feet explanation.  I cannot see the screen at all.
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>> I have looked at eclipse and it doesn't work with Voice-Over (the =
screen reader
>> on the Mac). I have java issues on my windows machine preventing me =
running
>> this app.
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>> If I use $python -d script.py the debugger doesn't seem to trigger on =
the mac.=20
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>> So how I can perform a debug on a script so I can step through it, =
set up break
>> points, watch variables, etc.
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>> It is really annoying me, since under Perl I just added the -d switch =
and had a
>> full debugger that worked at the console level.
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> For command line debugging see
> <http://docs.python.org/3/library/pdb.html>.=20
>=20
>=20
> More generally you might want to investigate
> <http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/> (disclaimer - I have never used
> this, but from what you say you might find it useful).
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