Adds functionality to the python debugger, including support for remote debugging

pip install epdb

For debugging code locally, epdb generally works the same as pdb. You can debug a program from the python interpreter:

>>> import epdb
>>> import mymodule
>>> epdb.Epdb().run('mymodule.test()')
*** NameError: name 'execfile' is not defined
> /home/wasche/git/epdb/<string>(1)<module>()
-> """
(Epdb) continue
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/bdb.py", line 431, in run
    exec(cmd, globals, locals)
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/wasche/git/epdb/mymodule.py", line 2, in test
    import spam
ImportError: No module named 'spam'

You can also drop breakpoints at specific places in a program's code by inserting:

import epdb; epdb.set_trace()

or by using the alias st:

import epdb; epdb.st()

To debug code that is either running on a remote system, or in a process that isn't attached to your tty you can use epdb in server mode:

import epdb; epdb.serve()

By default epdb.serve() will start a simple telnet server on port 8080, but you can use the port keyword argument to use a different port:

import epdb; epdb.serve(port=8888)

You can connect to the epdb server by using epdb.connect():

>>> import epdb
>>> epdb.connect()

By default epdb.connect() will attempt to connect to port 8080 on localhost. If you are debugging a process on another host or port, you can call connect with the host or port keyword arguments:

>>> import epdb
>>> epdb.connect(host='some.host.com', port=8888)

• epdb.serve() does not work with python 2.7.5 [#7]