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authorJoão Matos <jcrmatos@gmail.com>2019-01-30 17:23:39 (GMT)
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bpo-35835: Add reference to Python 3.7 new breakpoint() function in pdb documentation. (GH-11691)
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@@ -76,6 +76,10 @@ 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.
+.. versionadded:: 3.7
+ The built-in :func:`breakpoint()`, when called with defaults, can be used
+ instead of ``import pdb; pdb.set_trace()``.
+
The typical usage to inspect a crashed program is::
>>> import pdb