[Eric] Stepping through programs containing package imports which are in .egg format

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Sonntag, 8. März 2009, Geert Vancompernolle wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just installed the package Elixir to be able to follow a nice tutorial I
> found on the web (http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/stories/BBS47.html).
>
> After running the command "setup.py install" for the Elixir package, the
> resulting file is called "Elixir-0.6.1-py2.6.egg" and is stored in the
> directory <python_installation>/Lib/site-packages.
>
> However, while debugging an application that has the "from elixir import
> *" statement, I get the following error message popping up when trying
> to step into (not step over, because that doesn't give any problems!!!)
> the elixir package:
>
> "the file build\bdist.win32\egg\elixir\__init__.py could not be opened".
>
> I also have the same problem (but with other function names in the error
> message) if I want to step into (again, not step over, since that
> works!!!) code that calls functions from the elixir package.
>
> Example:
>
> The following statement:
>
> using_options( tablename='tasks' )
>
> is giving the error:
>
> "The file
> f:\appdata\_myprogramdata\programming\python\projects\todo\build\bdist.win3
>2\egg\elixir\statements.py could not be opened"
>
> Well, of course that file could not be opened, since I don't have it at
> that location.  But that file is referenced into the file
> "Elixir-0.6.1-py2.6.egg".
>
> If it's not possible to step into such .egg files, would it then be
> possible to prevent one from stepping into functions from that kind of
> packages?  It would make sense that F7 (step into) then would become
> "step over" (= F8) to prevent seeing this message.

How can the debugger determine, if it would step into such a file?

Detlev
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