[wingide-users] Breakpoints with actions and auto-continue

[Wingware Support]

Luc Bourhis wrote:
> the debate about the merits of logging and debuggers reminded me of two 
> features I would love to see in Wing:
> (a) the ability to associate Python code with a breakpoint, the code 
> being executed when the breakpoint is hit;
> (b) the possibility that the debugger does not stop after executing that 
> code.

This is an interesting idea and I think you can already do it by 
specifying an expression for a conditional BP that always returns False 
and does whatever logging (or something else) that you want.

One potential problem is conditional BP tests are limited to 
expressions, though you could probably get creative.  It might also be 
possible to accept multiple lines in the BP test as long as there's a 
return statement.  It would be turned into a function with readonly 
access to variables available to the code if a return statement was present.

Cheers,

John