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diff --git a/pyuno/README.md b/pyuno/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..95e487706 --- /dev/null +++ b/pyuno/README.md @@ -0,0 +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` + +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. + +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. |