1.2.1 Status and Debugger Settings (info, set, show)

An info command shows things about the program being debugged.A set command modifies parts of the debugger environment. You can see these environment settings with the show command.

In all of the set options that take ``on'' or ``off'' parameters, you can also use 1 for ``on'' and 0 for ``off.''

Each command has a corresponding show command to show the current value. See 1.2.1 for these counterparts.

If a readline module is available, pydb can keep track of the commands you type during your debugging sessions, so that you can be certain of precisely what happened. The set history commands to manage the command history facility.

POSIX-style line tracing is available and the set linetrace commands can be used to control that.

You may want to save the output of pydb commands to a file. See the set logging commands to control pydb's logging.



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