Question

I have a pdb trace set inside a GET request. I want to print all the attributes of the request object. I am trying the following, in pdb:

(Pdb) request
<GET /foo HTTP/1.1>
(Pdb) for d in dir(request):
*** SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing (<stdin>, line 1)

I am sure there is something fundamental I am missing here.

Answer 1

You can’t enter multi-line statements in pdb. You can use the commands command if the code block is to be executed on a break point, though; help commands for more information.

You can also sometimes collapse a multi-line statement into a single line. For example:

for d in dir(request): print d

In your particular case, though, it seems that either print dir(request) or pp dir(request) would suffice.