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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2022-01-07 20:03:36 (GMT)
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bpo-28546: [doc] Clarify setting pdb breakpoints (GH-30360)
Co-authored-by: Ian Kelling <ian@iankelling.org> (cherry picked from commit 6d07a9fb7cb31433c376a1aa20ea32001da0a418) Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>
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@@ -67,14 +67,13 @@ useful than quitting the debugger upon program's exit.
before the first line of the module.
-The typical usage to break into the debugger from a running program is to
-insert ::
+The typical usage to break into the debugger is to insert::
import pdb; pdb.set_trace()
-at the location you want to break into the debugger. You can then step through
-the code following this statement, and continue running without the debugger
-using the :pdbcmd:`continue` command.
+at the location you want to break into the debugger, and then run the program.
+You can then step through the code following this statement, and continue
+running without the debugger using the :pdbcmd:`continue` command.
.. versionadded:: 3.7
The built-in :func:`breakpoint()`, when called with defaults, can be used