[ARROW-5565] [Python] Document how to use gdb when working on pyarrow

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.14.0
• Component/s: Python
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/22009
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 12/Jun/19 02:14
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:41
• Resolved: 14/Jun/19 11:43

Description

It may not be obvious to new developers how to set breakpoints in the C++ libraries when driven from Python. The incantation is slightly abstruse, for example

$ gdb --args env py.test pyarrow/tests/test_array.py -k scalars_mixed_type

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #4560