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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2019-05-13 06:03:10 -0700
committerStéphane Wirtel <stephane@wirtel.be>2019-05-13 15:03:10 +0200
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bpo-33882: mention breakpoint() in debugger-related FAQ (GH-7759) (GH-13077)
(cherry picked from commit cf48e55f7f7718482fa712552f0cbc0aea1c826f) Co-authored-by: Andre Delfino <adelfino@gmail.com>
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@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ Is there a source code level debugger with breakpoints, single-stepping, etc.?
Yes.
+Several debuggers for Python are described below, and the built-in function
+:func:`breakpoint` allows you to drop into any of them.
+
The pdb module is a simple but adequate console-mode debugger for Python. It is
part of the standard Python library, and is :mod:`documented in the Library
Reference Manual <pdb>`. You can also write your own debugger by using the code