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Backport PR #2738: Unicode content crashes the pager (console)...
Backport PR #2738: Unicode content crashes the pager (console) We've run into an interesting bug in the astropy project. https://github.com/astropy/astropy/issues/600 When displaying a docstring that contains Unicode and is also long enough that it gets sent to the pager it fails since the docstring can't be sent to the pager as ascii. This crashes in the middle of sending content to the pager, so the shell ends up in an inconsistent state and stops echoing the keyboard etc. The fix (attached) is merely to encode the content sent to the pager in the same encoding as the terminal (`sys.stdout.encoding`). Strictly speaking, this isn't always the right thing to do, since the pager may be configured to expect a different encoding than the terminal, but that is sort of an irrational way to configure a machine... ;) For example, `less`, in the absence of any special environment variables to tell it otherwise, uses the standard `LC*` environment variables to determine what to do, which should be the same mechanism the terminal also uses by default. If anyone can suggest a better fix, I'm all for it. Perhaps it should be configurable, defaulting to `sys.stdout.encoding`?

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""" Debug a script (like %run -d) in IPython process, Using WinPdb
Usage:
%wdb test.py
run test.py, with a winpdb breakpoint at start of the file
%wdb pass
Change the password (e.g. if you have forgotten the old one)
Notes
-----
**WARNING**: As of March 2009 (IPython 0.10), WinPdb has a known bug, which
causes PyTables to become impossible to import if winpdb is loaded. Therefore,
if you need PyTables, do *not* use this extension.
For more details: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ipython/+bug/249036
"""
import os
from IPython.core import ipapi
from IPython.core.error import UsageError
import rpdb2
ip = ipapi.get()
rpdb_started = False
def wdb_f(self, arg):
""" Debug a script (like %run -d) in IPython process, Using WinPdb
Usage:
%wdb test.py
run test.py, with a winpdb breakpoint at start of the file
%wdb pass
Change the password (e.g. if you have forgotten the old one)
Note that after the script has been run, you need to do "Go" (f5)
in WinPdb to resume normal IPython operation.
"""
global rpdb_started
if not arg.strip():
print __doc__
return
if arg.strip() == 'pass':
passwd = raw_input('Enter new winpdb session password: ')
ip.db['winpdb_pass'] = passwd
print "Winpdb password changed"
if rpdb_started:
print "You need to restart IPython to use the new password"
return
path = os.path.abspath(arg)
if not os.path.isfile(path):
raise UsageError("%%wdb: file %s does not exist" % path)
if not rpdb_started:
passwd = ip.db.get('winpdb_pass', None)
if passwd is None:
import textwrap
print textwrap.dedent("""\
Winpdb sessions need a password that you use for attaching the external
winpdb session. IPython will remember this. You can change the password later
by '%wpdb pass'
""")
passwd = raw_input('Enter new winpdb session password: ')
ip.db['winpdb_pass'] = passwd
print "Starting rpdb2 in IPython process"
rpdb2.start_embedded_debugger(passwd, timeout = 0)
rpdb_started = True
rpdb2.set_temp_breakpoint(path)
print 'It is time to attach with WinPdb (launch WinPdb if needed, File -> Attach)'
ip.magic('%run ' + arg)
ip.define_magic('wdb', wdb_f)