{"id":305,"date":"2011-01-11T00:58:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T05:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/?p=305"},"modified":"2011-01-11T00:58:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T05:58:10","slug":"winpdb-remote-debugger-for-python-ported-to-robotpy-on-vxworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/01\/11\/winpdb-remote-debugger-for-python-ported-to-robotpy-on-vxworks\/","title":{"rendered":"Winpdb Remote Debugger for Python ported to RobotPy on vxWorks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really excited about the idea of using <a href=\"http:\/\/firstforge.wpi.edu\/sf\/projects\/robotpy\">python<\/a> on our FIRST Robotics Team&#8217;s Robot this year, and one of the first things that got really annoying was the lack of debugging capability, since vxWorks doesn&#8217;t really have a console (I mean it does, but in the way that FRC has it setup, its not really a console in the traditional sense of the word). So I searched around and found <a href=\"http:\/\/winpdb.org\">Winpdb<\/a>, a pretty neat remote debugger for python. So after playing with it for a bit, I&#8217;ve got it working on RobotPy and it seems to do the trick so far. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be creating some other tools as needed, so watch for more python in the future!  <\/p>\n<p>Download: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/FRC\/\">http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/FRC\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really excited about the idea of using python on our FIRST Robotics Team&#8217;s Robot this year, and one of the first things that got really annoying was the lack of debugging capability, since vxWorks doesn&#8217;t really have a console (I mean it does, but in the way that FRC has it setup, its not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}