ipdb freezes and doesn't allow to debug properly

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From Chana...@gmail.com on 2014-10-23T04:07:24Z

Spyder Version: 2.3.1
Python Version: 3.3.5
Qt Version : 4.8.4, PyQt4 (API v2) 4.9.6 on Windows
pyflakes >=0.6.0: None (OK)
pep8 >=0.6 : None (NOK)
IPython >=0.13 : 2.0.0 (OK)
pygments >=1.6 : 1.6 (OK)
pandas >=0.13.1 : 0.15.0 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6 : 1.2.2 (OK)
rope >=0.9.2 : 0.9.4 (OK)
matplotlib >=1.0: 1.3.1 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.0 : 0.7.5 (OK)
pylint >=0.25 : 1.1.0 (OK)

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. run simple code with breakpoint
   1. a ipdb console appears (which is very bad compared to iPython, I wish it could behave as iPython)
   2. after pd.qcut(binBy, linspace(0,1,20)) I got "*** NameError: name 'linspace' is not defined" because I forgot to namespace np.linspace.
   3. afterwards ipdb stop being responsive.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

a good debugger for Spyder!!!

Please provide any additional information below

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Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/issues/detail?id=2020

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From ccordoba12 on 2014-10-23T14:01:12Z

That's what everybody wants! We know ipdb is quite limited (it doesn't even allow you to run arbitrary code).

I hope next year I have time to fix all these problems :-)

Status: Accepted
Labels: Cat-Debugger

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From ccordoba12 on 2014-11-18T14:55:02Z

Labels: MS-v2.4

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From ccordoba12 on 2014-11-18T17:25:44Z

issue #1943 has been merged into this issue.

[bcolsen]

@ccordoba12 I think 3.x solves this issue.

I run:
linespace(0,1,20)
I get NameError and ipdb is still responsive

[ccordoba12]

Great! Thanks for letting is know about it.

Just for the record, this was fixed in PR #4202.