Re: [Boost-build] Boost.Build unit test bugs.

From: John Reid (j.reid_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-04-05 07:00:24

Jurko Gospodnetiæ wrote:
>>>P.S.
>>>   Can anyone suggest a good Python IDE for Windows? I can't seem to 
>>>find one to debug in easily... :-) I'd like to work on this but my 
>>>current tool chain makes this quite painful. :-)))
>>
>>I'm not using any IDE, I just put print statements in python code ;-)
> 
> 
>    :-)) Well.. that's nice when you already know the code... but I find 
> it extremely useful when researching new code to be able to place 
> breakpoint and see the current stack and possibly look around at 
> different variables. And, since its 'getting to know your surroundings' 
> kind of research you don't really know what you're looking for until you 
> get there... :-) In that scenario it 'too painful' to have to restart 
> the whole process every time you decide to look at something else or 
> look at the stack information in some neighboring function to see where 
> it gets called from...
> 
I use print statements mostly but when I need a debugger I've found 
pyscripter ( http://tinyurl.com/yrxd65 ) to be very useful. If there's 
anything better and free I'd also be keen to hear about it.

John.