I use ipdb fairly often in a way to just jump to a piece of code that is isolated i.e. it is hard to write a real script that uses it. Instead I write a minimal tes
Sloppy but effective way is to set monkey patch ipdb.set_trace = lambda:0, then every subsequent time ipdb.set_trace is hit it will do nothing and return to the calling function. So you won't have to type q any more.