[Zope-dev] zope.testing.testrunner.debug.post_mortem and try/finally

Wichert Akkerman wichert at wiggy.net
Thu Dec 3 02:55:32 EST 2009


On 2009-12-2 23:06, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 01:36:37PM -0500, Benji York wrote:
>> Here's another idea: a testrunner option that takes a file name and line
>> number and inserts a breakpoint at that position.  That way you can get
>> the same effect as editing the code without actually having to do so.
>
> Is that possible?  I once spent hours studying pdb docs and found no way
> to set a breakpoint in advance, without modifying the source file in
> question, and without having the user to do manual interaction at the
> beginning.

I think mr.freeze (see http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mr.freeze ) can do 
this. Perhaps there is some code there you could borrow.

Wichert.


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