[Zope] Weird PDB behavioramounts to canonic filename problem

[Andrew Athan]

Does anyone have a clever way to fix this problem?

Many of my breakpoints were not being hit.  Turns out the reason is that
there is a hodge-podge of different forms for the filenames reported in
stack frames.  I've seen

D:/LongNameThing\file.py
d:\LONGNA~1\file.py
d:/LongNameThing\file.py
D:\LONGNA~1\file.py

This causes bdb.py's break_here function not to hit lots of good stuff,
since emacs's gud's C-x b always uses the right form.  By the way, put this
in your .emacs ;-)

There is a hook in bdb for a function called canonic() which is used to
canonicalize all filenames.  I can write it, but if someone has it already
that'd be great.  My debugging would run faster if there were some way to
make sure that all .pyc's and/or .py's got the same filename format when
executing.  I don't have time to look into this.  Is there any magic someone
can incant for me?

(add-hook 'pdb-mode-hook (function (lambda () (gud-def gud-break  "break
%d%f:%l"     "\C-b" "Set breakpoint at current line."))))