pdb Namespace Reference

Data Structures
class	Pdb

Functions
def	find_function
def	run
def	runeval
def	runctx
def	runcall
def	set_trace
def	post_mortem
def	pm
def	test
def	help

Variables
list	__all__
string	line_prefix = '\n-> '
string	TESTCMD = 'import x; x.main()'
string	mainmodule = ''
string	mainpyfile = ''

Function Documentation

def pdb.find_function	(		funcname,
			filename
	)

Definition at line 18 of file pdb.py.

References aifc.open().

def find_function(funcname, filename):
    cre = re.compile(r'def\s+%s\s*[(]' % funcname)
    try:
        fp = open(filename)
    except IOError:
        return None
    # consumer of this info expects the first line to be 1
    lineno = 1
    answer = None
    while 1:
        line = fp.readline()
        if line == '':
            break
        if cre.match(line):
            answer = funcname, filename, lineno
            break
        lineno = lineno + 1
    fp.close()
    return answer


# Interaction prompt line will separate file and call info from code
# text using value of line_prefix string.  A newline and arrow may
# be to your liking.  You can set it once pdb is imported using the
# command "pdb.line_prefix = '\n% '".