UNMAINTAINED/ABANDONED CODE / DO NOT USE

Due to the new EU Cyber Resilience Act (as European Union), even if it was implied because there was no more activity, this repository is now explicitly declared unmaintained.

The content does not meet the new regulatory requirements and therefore cannot be deployed or distributed, especially in a European context.

This repository now remains online ONLY for public archiving, documentation and education purposes and we ask everyone to respect this.

As stated, the maintainers stopped development and therefore all support some time ago, and make this declaration on December 15, 2024.

We may also unpublish soon (as in the following monthes) any published ressources tied to the corpusops project (pypi, dockerhub, ansible-galaxy, the repositories). So, please don't rely on it after March 15, 2025 and adapt whatever project which used this code.

Features

• Implement the most recent Python 3 features of pdb, as defined in the Python 3 pdb documentation. The pdb command line interface remains unchanged except for the new detach and thread pdb commands.
• Improve significantly pdb performance. With breakpoints, pdb-clone runs just below the speed of the interpreter while pdb runs 10 to 100 times slower than the interpreter, see Performances.
• Extend pdb with remote debugging. A remote debugging session may be started when the program stops at a pdb.set_trace_remote() hard-coded breakpoint, or at any time and multiple times by attaching to the process main thread. See RemoteDebugging
• Fix pdb long standing bugs entered in the Python issue tracker, see the News.
• Add a bdb comprehensive test suite (more than 70 tests) and run both pdb and bdb test suites.

pdb-clone runs the same source code on all the supported versions of Python, which are:

• Python 3: from version 3.2 onward.
• Python 2: version 2.7.

See also the README and the project home page.

Report bugs to the issue tracker.

Usage

Invoke pdb-clone as a script to debug other scripts. For example:

$ pdb-clone myscript.py

Or use one of the different ways of running pdb described in the pdb documentation and replace:

import pdb

with:

from pdb_clone import pdb