Is There A Free Python Debugger That Has Watchpoints?

pdb and winpdb both seem to be missing this essential (to me) feature. I saw something suggesting WingIDE has it but I'd prefer a solution that is free, and if I do have to pay, I

Solution 1:

You should check out Eric4

It's a very good Python IDE with a builtin debugger. The debugger has views for global variables, local variables and watchpoints.

Solution 2:

Please look what pydev in eclipse offers...

Solution 3:

Take a look at PyScripter. It has an integrated debugger, watch windows and much more. It's open source and is developed here.

HTH

Solution 4:

It's too bad that the standard pdb module that comes with python itself does not yet support watchpoints.

Described here: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PdbImprovments

Solution 5:

This reimplementation of the built-in pdb.py has watchpoints.

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2008/06/pdb-and-rlcompleterng.html

I tried it but, in cursory tries was not able to get it to work.