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global .pdbrc on windows 7 not reachable out of the box #64722

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mbyt mannequin opened this issue Feb 5, 2014 · 6 comments
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global .pdbrc on windows 7 not reachable out of the box #64722

mbyt mannequin opened this issue Feb 5, 2014 · 6 comments
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3.7 (EOL) end of life 3.8 only security fixes 3.9 only security fixes OS-windows stdlib Python modules in the Lib dir type-feature A feature request or enhancement

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mbyt mannequin commented Feb 5, 2014

BPO 20523
Nosy @birkenfeld, @tjguk, @wiggin15, @zware, @zooba, @miss-islington
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  • bpo-20523: pdb searches for .pdbrc in ~ instead of $HOME #11846
  • bpo-20523: pdb searches for .pdbrc in ~ instead of $HOME #11847
  • bpo-20523: pdb.Pdb can read the global ~/.pdbrc file on Windows 7 #11855
  • [3.7] bpo-20523: pdb searches for .pdbrc in ~ instead of $HOME (GH-11847) #15084
  • [3.8] bpo-20523: pdb searches for .pdbrc in ~ instead of $HOME (GH-11847) #15085
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title = 'global .pdbrc on windows 7 not reachable out of the box'
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    mbyt mannequin commented Feb 5, 2014

    The global .pdbrc file is determined by the %HOME% environment variable. However, this is not available out of the box on e.g. windows 7 systems. Here only %HOMEDRIVE% and %HOMEPATH% are defined.

    Thus the usual approach to have a global .pdbrc file on windows is to define a %HOME% environment variable by hand. This could be avoided if the global .pdbrc would be determined by os.path.expanduser("~/.pdbrc"), which works on current windows and does the magic behind.

    There are two possible approaches to improve this situation:

    • explicitly mention in the docs that on windows a %HOME% varialbe need to be created manually
    • patch pdb.py to use os.path.expanduser instead (see attached diff)

    For reference, see also old discussion https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-October/349550.html.

    @mbyt mbyt mannequin added the type-feature A feature request or enhancement label Feb 5, 2014
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    BreamoreBoy mannequin commented Feb 12, 2015

    We have a patch to review or we need a doc patch, unless someone has a different idea to the approaches suggested by the originator. I prefer the idea of changing the code, manually changing environment variables just seems wrong to me, but I won't lose any sleep over it.

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    zooba commented Feb 13, 2015

    expanduser() sounds like the better choice here.

    @zooba zooba added 3.7 (EOL) end of life 3.8 only security fixes 3.9 only security fixes labels Aug 2, 2019
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    zooba commented Aug 2, 2019

    New changeset 7ea9a85 by Steve Dower (Timothy Hopper) in branch 'master':
    bpo-20523: pdb searches for .pdbrc in ~ instead of $HOME (GH-11847)
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    New changeset 1ff7dd6 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7':
    bpo-20523: pdb searches for .pdbrc in ~ instead of $HOME (GH-11847)
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    New changeset 79af3bd by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.8':
    bpo-20523: pdb searches for .pdbrc in ~ instead of $HOME (GH-11847)
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