Re: Cannot run PDB properly in emacs 22.1.1 on windows-xp

[Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>]

 > Today I found a topic, which gives a clean description about this:
 > http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/faq7.html#subproc-buffer
 > 
 > The output of PDB is buffered (by python.exe, not emacs) and cannot
 > been displayed.
 > 
 > Now it works with this command:
 > python -u -m pdb test.py
 > 
 > -u     : unbuffered binary stdout and stderr (also PYTHONUNBUFFERED=x)
 >          see man page for details on internal buffering relating to '-
 > u'

Perhaps then we should make the change below.  Does this workd for you?
Does it work for anybody else with Python on Windows?

-- 
Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob



*************** and source-file directory for your debug
*** 1622,1628 ****
  
      output))
  
! (defcustom gud-pdb-command-name "pdb"
    "File name for executing the Python debugger.
  This should be an executable on your path, or an absolute file name."
    :type 'string
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      output))
  
! (defcustom gud-pdb-command-name 
!   (if (eq system-type 'windows-nt)
!       "python -u -m pdb"
!     "pdb")
    "File name for executing the Python debugger.
  This should be an executable on your path, or an absolute file name."
    :type 'string