From: R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 23:40:30 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: whatsnew: pdb works for debugging asyncio programs (#16596).
X-Git-Tag: v3.4.1rc1~233^2~97
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f3b3e9e23c2bc1e2f93e20f936b683a969d8260c;p=python

whatsnew: pdb works for debugging asyncio programs (#16596).
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
index 6b1af0efc6..8861d88400 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
@@ -1066,6 +1066,11 @@ root on Windows. (Contributed by Tim Golden in :issue:`9035`.)
 pdb
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+:mod:`pdb` has been enhanced to handle generators, :keyword:`yield`, and
+:keyword:`yield from` in a more useful fashion.  This is especially helpful when
+debugging :mod:`asyncio` based programs.  (Contributed by Andrew Svetlov and
+Xavier de Gaye in :issue:`16596`.)
+
 The ``print`` command has been removed from :mod:`pdb`, restoring access to the
 Python :func:`print` function from the pdb command line.  Python2's ``pdb`` did
 not have a ``print`` command; instead, entering ``print`` executed the