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diff --git a/pyuno/README.md b/pyuno/README.md index 4d88391229f1..95e487706788 100644 --- a/pyuno/README.md +++ b/pyuno/README.md @@ -1,19 +1,22 @@ +# Python UNO Bindings + UNO bindings for the Python programming language. -To have much joy debugging python extensions you need to: - a) edit pythonloader.py in your install setting DEBUG=1 at the top - b) touch pyuno/source/module/pyuno_runtime.cxx and 'make debug=true' in pyuno +To have much joy debugging Python extensions you need to: + ++ a) edit `pythonloader.py` in your install setting `DEBUG=1` at the top ++ b) `touch pyuno/source/module/pyuno_runtime.cxx` and `make debug=true` in `pyuno` Then you'll start to see your exceptions on the console instead of them getting lost at the UNO interface. Python also comes with a gdb script -libpython$(PYTHON_VERSION_MAJOR).$(PYTHON_VERSION_MINOR)m.so.1.0-gdb.py -that is copied to instdir and will be auto-loaded by gdb; -it provides commands like "py-bt" to get a python-level backtrace, -and "py-print" to print python variables. +`libpython$(PYTHON_VERSION_MAJOR).$(PYTHON_VERSION_MINOR)m.so.1.0-gdb.py` +that is copied to `instdir` and will be auto-loaded by `gdb`; +it provides commands like `py-bt` to get a Python-level backtrace, +and `py-print` to print Python variables. -Another way to debug Python code is to use pdb: edit some initialization -function to insert "import pdb; pdb.set_trace()" (somewhere so that it is -executed early), then run soffice from a terminal and a command-line python -debugger will appear where you can set python-level breakpoints. +Another way to debug Python code is to use `pdb`: edit some initialization +function to insert `import pdb; pdb.set_trace()` (somewhere so that it is +executed early), then run `soffice` from a terminal and a command-line Python +debugger will appear where you can set Python-level breakpoints. |