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The Python Apprentice

By : Robert Smallshire, Austin Bingham
Book Image

The Python Apprentice

By: Robert Smallshire, Austin Bingham

Overview of this book

Experienced programmers want to know how to enhance their craft and we want to help them start as apprentices with Python. We know that before mastering Python you need to learn the culture and the tools to become a productive member of any Python project. Our goal with this book is to give you a practical and thorough introduction to Python programming, providing you with the insight and technical craftsmanship you need to be a productive member of any Python project. Python is a big language, and it’s not our intention with this book to cover everything there is to know. We just want to make sure that you, as the developer, know the tools, basic idioms and of course the ins and outs of the language, the standard library and other modules to be able to jump into most projects.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
12
Afterword – Just the Beginning

Debugging commands


The first thing we'll do is simply see what commands are available in the debugger by typing help:

(Pdb) help

Documented commands (type help <topic>):
========================================
EOF    cl         disable  interact  next     return  u          where
a      clear      display  j         p        retval  unalias
alias  commands   down     jump      pp       run     undisplay
args   condition  enable   l         print    rv      unt
b      cont       exit     list      q        s       until
break  continue   h        ll        quit     source  up
bt     d          help     longlist  r        step    w
c      debug      ignore   n         restart  tbreak  whatis

Miscellaneous help topics:
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pdb  exec

This lists a few dozen commands, some of which you'll use in almost every debugging session, and some of which you may never use at all.

You can get specific help on a command by typing help followed by the command name. For example...