Name

Platform

Notes

rpdb

Unix,Windows,Mac OS X

( is Obsolete replaced by rpdb2) rpdb.py improves pdb.py's usability and adds support for remote debugging, multiple threads debugging, post mortem of unhandled exceptions, and for debugging of embedded scripts.

PdbRcIdea

All

A .pdbrc for Pyhon's standard debugger, pdb, which allows you to run arbitrary Python commands on pdb startup.

HAP Python Remote Debugger

Windows

A python IDE with remote debugging capability.

Winpdb and Rpdb2

Unix,Linux,Windows

an advanced python debugger, with support for smart breakpoints, multiple threads, namespace modification, embedded debugging, encrypted communication and speed of up to 20 times that of pdb.

JpyDbg

Mac OS X, OS/2, Unix, VMS and Windows

both a CPYTHON and a JPYTHON(JYTHON) debugging framework which has been integrated inside Jedit as a standard jedit pluggin.

pydb

Unix, Windows, OS X

An expanded version of the pdb loosely based on the gdb command set. The debugger supports thread debugging, signal handling, non-interactive tracing, and much more.

DDD

Unix

DDD is a graphical front-end for command-line debuggers such as GDB, DBX, WDB, Ladebug, JDB, XDB, the Perl debugger, the bash debugger, GNU Make debugger, or the Python debugger. DDD displays data structures as graphs and plots. A deprecated version of pydb comes with this package. For GNU make debugging, use ddd-test5

pyDebug

Unix,Windows

Debugger for Python programs with a graphical user interface. It is inherited from "bdb" but uses a GUI and has some powerful features like object browser, windows for variables, classes, functions, exceptions, stack, conditional breakpoints, etc.

PyDev

Mac OS X, Linux, Windows

Allows debugging multiple threads in Jython and Python (It is featured as a 'Python IDE' plugin for Eclipse).

gdb

*nix

See DebuggingWithGdb

Wing IDE

Mac OS X, Linux, Windows

An IDE that can debug multiple threads in code launched from the IDE or code launched externally, running under CPython and Stackless Python. The GUI includes a Debug Probe, which is a Python shell running in the context of the paused debug process. The IDE's debugger also features value watching (by symbolic path, object reference, or a combination), conditional breakpoints, debugging of tests running in the integrated unit testing tool, special support for Zope2 and Plone, and How-Tos for debugging Turbogears, Django, Google App Engine, wxWidgets, PyQt, Tkinter, CGIs, and many other packages.

Komodo IDE

Mac OS X, Linux, Windows

Name

Platform

Notes

pythontracer

PyConquer

Any

Trace hook logger which outputs each thread in its own "swimlane" to make multithreaded analysis easier. Can also time calls (naively) and watch variables.