For those of you that use emacs and pdbtrack, i've extended it a bit to be useful with non-local scripts - eg, through-the-web python scripts, or filesystem-based code on the server's filesystem, hence not findable in your filesystem at the compiled-in path. Pdbtrack is part of emacs python-mode which displays the source file and indicates the current line as you step through the code with the python debugger, pdb, in an emacs shell buffer. It uses information in the pdb trace to find the file and the line, but couldn't do anything if the path of the file isn't valid on your system - eg if the script was compiled on a different system, with the source in a different place or noexistent on your system, or if there is no valid path for the script, eg through-the-web scripts. With the changes, when pdbtrack can't find the file at the indicated path, it tries to find it in existing buffers. It uses the function name and looks through the buffers in your emacs session, from most to least recent, looking for a python-mode buffer that either is named for the function or has a definition (def or class) for that function. So to get source tracking for code that's not resident in your filesystem, you put a copy of the script in a buffer, and pdbtrack will find it. (It also allows an offset for the leading '##' meta-comment lines in filesystem copies of python scripts.) You can find the new version at: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/python/python/dist/src/Misc/p... It's pretty fresh - i'd be happy if people would give it a try, and let me know if you hit problems with it. -- Ken Manheimer klm@zope.com