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IDLE breakpoint facility undocumented #54614
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| BPO | 10405 |
|---|---|
| Nosy | @terryjreedy, @kbkaiser, @taleinat, @ned-deily, @merwok, @rovitotv |
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closed_at = <Date 2012-10-20.20:36:01.595>
created_at = <Date 2010-11-13.08:54:33.341>
labels = ['expert-IDLE', 'docs']
title = 'IDLE breakpoint facility undocumented'
updated_at = <Date 2012-10-20.20:36:01.570>
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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue10405'
versions = ['Python 2.7', 'Python 3.2', 'Python 3.3', 'Python 3.4']
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ned-deily commentedon Nov 13, 2010
In neither the IDLE section of the Library Reference nor in IDLE's own help file is there any documentation on how to use its breakpoint capability. Since the menu options only appear if the user knows to Right-click (or Control-click on OS X - see bpo-10404), it would be easy for a user to never realize that the breakpoint capability exists.
merwok commentedon Nov 21, 2010
Can you propose a patch, as a diff or even plain English in a reply?
ned-deily commentedon Nov 21, 2010
I'd rather see the wording come from more experienced users of IDLE and on other platforms.
NickODell commentedon Jun 6, 2011
I've added a short note regarding breakpoints in Doc/library/idle.rst
Ned, I'm not an experienced user with IDLE by any means, but I think some documentation is better than none, no?
rovitotv commentedon Oct 20, 2012
Nick,
I agree some documentation is better than none. But somebody could do better I am not sure how to debug in IDLE. I have taken your file and created a 2.7 patch.
rovitotv commentedon Oct 20, 2012
This patch works for both Python 3.4 and Python 2.7, it is a very simple patch.
python-dev commentedon Oct 20, 2012
New changeset c0a423ce4b96 by Ned Deily in branch '2.7':
Issue bpo-10405: Document IDLE context menus in Standard Library document
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/c0a423ce4b96
New changeset 566b7574becb by Ned Deily in branch '3.2':
Issue bpo-10405: Document IDLE context menus in Standard Library document
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/566b7574becb
New changeset 85c4d21f7454 by Ned Deily in branch '3.3':
Issue bpo-10405: merge from 3.2
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/85c4d21f7454
New changeset ea7849650fd1 by Ned Deily in branch 'default':
Issue bpo-10405: merge from 3.3
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/ea7849650fd1
ned-deily commentedon Oct 20, 2012
Thanks for your suggestions, Nick and Todd. While reviewing them, I realized that there is also a small context (right-click) menu for the IDLE shell window as well. I expanded the doc changes to include it and included several other minor doc updates. I also updated the builtin IDLE Help file.
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