[wingide-users] Debugger: Exceptions docs and more control?

[Wing IDE Support]

Hi,

Let me answer your later questions first.  My suggestion is to use the 
when printed exception mode and insert code into your try except blocks 
to either reraise or print the exception when Wing's debugger is active 
-- something along the lines of:
   except Exception:
     if __debug__ and 'WINGDB_ACTIVE' in os.environ:
       raise  # or logging.exception('Exception')

Since exceptions are used for non-error flow control in Python and for 
probing to see if things are implemented, the always report mode isn't 
very useful and I doubt limiting to project files would help much.

On 3/8/11 5:22 AM, Graham Wideman wrote:
> 1. The "Report Logged Exceptions In When Printed Mode" checkbox

If enabled, this treats a call to logging.exception as if the traceback 
was printed.

> 2. Immediate if Appear Unhandled:  What happens if debugger thinks an exception *is* handled -- no report? Or report, but not immediate?

If the debugger thinks the exception is handled, it is not reported. 
This mode was Wing's default before the when printed mode was added.  It 
works reasonably well, but there's often a few exceptions that get 
reported that are later handled.

> 3. How do the Never Report and Always Report lists interact with the Report Exceptions choices?

Never in the named lists overrides the Report Exceptions setting so 
never means never (or almost never) and always means always.  By 
default, Wing will stop at a failed assert if Report Exceptions is never 
and won't stop on SystemExit if Report Exceptions is always.

Cheers,

John