Re: pdb command

[Dave Love]

Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:

> I think pdb is (was?) the Perl debugger, 

Not according to gud.el.

`pdb' is definitely Python's debugger module -- it just doesn't appear
as a shell command (now?):

$ python -c 'import pydoc, pdb
> pydoc.help(pdb)'|head
Help on module pdb:

NAME
    pdb - A Python debugger.

FILE
    /usr/lib/python2.3/pdb.py

CLASSES
    bdb.Bdb

A web search for `perl' and `pdb' basically brings up Protein Databank
format-related items (for which I did an Emacs mode, so I'd considered
the name confusion somewhat before).