Two changes suggested by Andrew Kuchling:
- move compile() inside try-except
- add code so you can do "python pdb.py <script> <arg> ..." to debug <script>
diff --git a/Lib/pdb.py b/Lib/pdb.py
index f44c7e0..60b3412 100755
--- a/Lib/pdb.py
+++ b/Lib/pdb.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+#! /usr/local/bin/python
+
# pdb.py -- finally, a Python debugger!
# (See pdb.doc for documentation.)
@@ -74,8 +76,8 @@
locals = self.curframe.f_locals
globals = self.curframe.f_globals
globals['__privileged__'] = 1
- code = compile(line + '\n', '<stdin>', 'single')
try:
+ code = compile(line + '\n', '<stdin>', 'single')
exec code in globals, locals
except:
if type(sys.exc_type) == type(''):
@@ -490,3 +492,17 @@
else:
print 'Sorry, can\'t find the help file "pdb.doc"',
print 'along the Python search path'
+
+# When invoked as main program, invoke the debugger on a script
+if __name__=='__main__':
+ import sys
+ if not sys.argv[1:]:
+ print "usage: pdb.py scriptfile [arg] ..."
+ sys.exit(2)
+
+ # Get the module name and function name, if present
+ filename = sys.argv[1]
+
+ del sys.argv[0]
+
+ run('execfile(' + `filename` + ')', {'__name__': '__main__'})