Debugging in pydev - how to make python objects expandable - as in java debugger?

Question

Especially standard types like dictionaries and lists - e.g. imagine you have dictionary of dictionaries of lists - then when you go over some variable (in debug) - the debugger will show it as static object.toString() representation instead of expandable (clickable) java or c++ debugger representations. This feature seems to me pretty essential is there a way how to enable it in PyDev - or is there some other IDE with whatever plugins that has this feature ?

Answer 1

In PyDev Variables view supports expandable objects. Expressions View doesn't.

There is already feature request for this http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2947729&group_id=85796&atid=577332

Answer 2

Grab the latest release (PyDev 2.2.4) where this should be fixed.

Also, it might be worth nothing that in PyDev, the console may be used to gather information on objects in a debug session ( see: http://pydev.org/manual_adv_debug_console.html )