How can I make ipdb show more lines of context while debugging?

Question

By default, during debugging in IPython, ipdb shows one line above and one line below the current position in code.

Is there an easy way to make the area shown a bit b

Answer 1

If you want to stop execution in a running system, as others said, use:

ipdb.set_trace(context=number_of_lines)

For running some function or an object's method modifying this context lines is a little bit tricky. The only way I found was:

ipdb.__main__._init_pdb(context=number_of_lines).runcall(callable, *args, **kwargs)

In case it serves someone.