Exiting Python Debugger ipdb

Question

I use ipdb fairly often in a way to just jump to a piece of code that is isolated i.e. it is hard to write a real script that uses it. Instead I write a minimal test case with mocking and jump into it.

Exemplary for the workflow:

def func():    ...    import ipdb    ipdb.set_trace()    ...  def test_case():     ...     func()     ... 

Then, invoke

py.test test_file.py -s -k test_case 

Now, usually I just check one variable or two, and then want to quit. Change the code and do it over again.

How do I quit? The manual says q quits the debugger. It doesn't (really). You have to quit a few times before the debugger actually terminates. The same behavior for Ctrl-C and Ctrl-D (with the additional frustration that hitting Ctrl-D several times eventually quits the terminal, too).

Is there a smart way to force quit? Is this workflow even sensible? What is the standard way to do it?

Answer 1

I put the following in my .pdbrc

import os  alias kk os.system('kill -9 %d' % os.getpid()) 

kk kills the debugger and (the process that trigger the debugger).

Answer 2

The following worked for me:

import sys sys.exit() 

On newer versions of ipython, as mentioned above and below, this doesn't work. In that case,

import os os._exit(0) 

should still do the trick.