[Lldb-commits] [lldb] [lldb][docs] Update instructions for debugging API tests (PR #89979)

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Author: Chelsea Cassanova (chelcassanova)

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This adds the option to use the `breakpoint()` keyword as a way to debug the API tests.

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Full diff: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/89979.diff


1 Files Affected:

- (modified) lldb/docs/resources/test.rst (+1-1) 


``````````diff
diff --git a/lldb/docs/resources/test.rst b/lldb/docs/resources/test.rst
index 2b0e9010fe280a..d90d7012f1c860 100644
--- a/lldb/docs/resources/test.rst
+++ b/lldb/docs/resources/test.rst
@@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ will cause the script to print out the pid of the test and wait for a while
 until a debugger is attached. Then run ``lldb -p <pid>`` to attach.
 
 To instead debug a test's python source, edit the test and insert
-``import pdb; pdb.set_trace()`` at the point you want to start debugging. In
+``import pdb; pdb.set_trace()`` or ``breakpoint()`` (Python 3 only) at the point you want to start debugging. In
 addition to pdb's debugging facilities, lldb commands can be executed with the
 help of a pdb alias. For example ``lldb bt`` and ``lldb v some_var``. Add this
 line to your ``~/.pdbrc``:

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https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/89979


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