Simpler way to put PDB breakpoints in Python code?

Question

Just a convenience question. I\'ve been a bit spoiled with debuggers in IDEs like Visual Studio and XCode. I find it a bit clumsy to have to type import pdb; pdb.set_t

Answer 1

The simplest way to run the debugger on your script is just

pdb your_script.py

Running pdb on a Linux command-line gives

usage: pdb.py scriptfile [arg] ...