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| author | Michael Stahl <mstahl@redhat.com> | 2016-03-22 21:53:23 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Stahl <mstahl@redhat.com> | 2016-03-23 15:51:50 +0100 |
| commit | 7b08ccceffac5b5df904f84ca0b5aa646d6bd00e (patch) | |
| tree | 514321db2bde1483c4210d09f3a5691cb3c83a15 /pyuno | |
| parent | f6a74ce9bbe4788fbeff463b52557b7e5aaa809f (diff) | |
pyuno: add some debugging hints
Change-Id: Id01e689911de8bc4402803e130db99b1b7c5b365
Diffstat (limited to 'pyuno')
| -rw-r--r-- | pyuno/README | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pyuno/README b/pyuno/README index 1138ce7b284e..57f57db69870 100644 --- a/pyuno/README +++ b/pyuno/README @@ -6,3 +6,14 @@ To have much joy debugging python extensions you need to: Then you'll start to see your exceptions on the console instead of them getting lost at the UNO interface. + +Python also comes with a gdb script +libpython$(PYTHON_VERSION_MAJOR).$(PYTHON_VERSION_MINOR)m.so-gdb.py +that is copied to instdir and will be auto-loaded by gdb; +it provides commands like "py-bt" to get a python-level backtrace, +and "py-print" to print python variables. + +Another way to debug python code is to use pdb: edit some initalization +function to to insert "import pdb; pdb.set_trace()" (somewhere so that it is +executed early), then run soffice from a terminal and a command-line python +debugger will appear where you can set python-level breakpoints. |