How do you debug pydoit?

Question

I have a python doit script that is getting stuck on one step but doesn't throw an error. It would sit all day if I let it. I've checked all the inputs and they look exactly the same as the last time I ran it. How do I debug? I tried using pdb but maybe I don't know how to use it and I googled and couldn't find example code. I can't post my code since its confidential. Just a general how to debug in doit would help me greatly. I use Python 2.7 and yes eventually I'll have to update to 3 but for now I'm using 2.7. (Sorry I have had quite a few ask why I continue with 2.7--- no time right now to update all my scripts, there are over 200)

Answer 1

https://pydoit.org/tools.html#set-trace

doit provides a set_trace() function that will call PDB set_trace and make sure stdout output is printed on terminal.

Not your case, but doit also provides a command line option --pdb that automatically drops in PDB when an unhandled exception occurs.