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Broken mental model -- documentation

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start by reproducing the reported Python 3.4 invocation and the commands "list 3", "next", and print("hello world"). Review the available debugger usage documentation and clarify how to enter and use the gdb-like debugger; done means the documented steps distinguish debugger commands from Python REPL input.

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Description

I've installed trepan3k in my python34 environment. I can run trepan3k. I can invoke it from within my python program. However whenever I try to issue gdb-like commands, I get errors. The program seems to be in a REPL-sort of mode where all it's willing to do is to interpret python commands. So "list 3" doesn't work, "next" tells me that next is a , and print("hello world") works fine, but I don't need a REPL, I need a debugger. I'm obviously missing something simple, but I think that reflects perhaps an opportunity to improve the documentation. And advice? Thanks, --KS

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