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diff --git a/pyuno/README.md b/pyuno/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..4d88391229f1 --- /dev/null +++ b/pyuno/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +UNO bindings for the Python programming language. + +To have much joy debugging python extensions you need to: + a) edit pythonloader.py in your install setting DEBUG=1 at the top + b) touch pyuno/source/module/pyuno_runtime.cxx and 'make debug=true' in pyuno + +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.1.0-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 initialization +function 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. |