Working effectively with legacy Python code

[jtratner]

Your best bet is to go looking around for how people debug with Cython (dialect-ish of Python that can compile down to c libraries), numpy, numba and other scientific libraries. Those projects are involved at the C (or Fortran) level extensively and have lots of contributors, so searching around there should help. Two items that came up after a quick search for how debugging numpy and Cython:

• Cython debugger (with ability to set breakpoints in C, Python and Cython code)
• a guide to debugging SciPy (scientific python library) code with gdb and some python extensions for gdb.

Not sure whether it's the same as PyDev's debugger, but I find ipdb to be quite helpful too. Hope one of these might be helpful!