Professional IronPython

d or down: Moves the frame pointer down one level in the stack trace to a new frame.
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debug: Enters a recursive debugger that helps you debug complex statements.
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disable: Disables one or more breakpoints so that they still exist, but the debugger ignores 
them. You can separate multiple breakpoint numbers with spaces to disable a group of 
breakpoints at once.
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enable: Enables one or more breakpoints so that the debugger responds to them. You can 
separate multiple breakpoint numbers with spaces to enable a group of breakpoints at once. 
Enabling a breakpoint doesn’t override any conditions that are set on the breakpoint. The 
condition must still evaluate to 
True
before the debugger reacts to the breakpoint.
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EOF: Tells the debugger to handle the End of File (EOF) as a command. Normally, this 
means ending the debugger session once the debugger reaches EOF.
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Debugging with the Python Debugger
 
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exit or q or quit: Ends the debugging session. Make sure you type 
exit
, and not 
exit()
, 
which still ends the IronPython console session.
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h or help: Displays information about the debugger. If you don’t provide an argument, help 
displays a list of available debugging commands. Adding an argument shows information 
about the specific debugging command.
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ignore: Creates a condition where the debugger ignores a breakpoint a specific number of times. 
For example, you might want to debug a loop with a breakpoint set at a specific line of code 
within the breakpoint. You could use the ignore command to ignore the first five times through 
the loop and stop at the sixth. You must supply a breakpoint number and a count to use this 
command. The debugger automatically ignores the breakpoint until the count is 0.
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