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pyuno: add some debugging hints

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Michael Stahl 2016-03-22 21:53:23 +01:00
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@ -6,3 +6,14 @@ To have much joy debugging python extensions you need to:
Then you'll start to see your exceptions on the console instead of them getting Then you'll start to see your exceptions on the console instead of them getting
lost at the UNO interface. lost at the UNO interface.
Python also comes with a gdb script
libpython$(PYTHON_VERSION_MAJOR).$(PYTHON_VERSION_MINOR)m.so-gdb.py
that is copied to instdir and will be auto-loaded by gdb;
it provides commands like "py-bt" to get a python-level backtrace,
and "py-print" to print python variables.
Another way to debug python code is to use pdb: edit some initalization
function to to insert "import pdb; pdb.set_trace()" (somewhere so that it is
executed early), then run soffice from a terminal and a command-line python
debugger will appear where you can set python-level breakpoints.