I am a very experienced software developer, but not with CHIRP, or Python, or Ham radio, so I'm basically a newbie here. I have written a new driver for the FT-4XR and (eventually) for its siblings. The module successfully reads the radio, but then fails to fill in the GUI memory structures. I tried to use pdb as described at https://docs.python.org/2/library/pdb.html by inserting the following line at a point in my module: import pdb; pdb.set_trace() The breakpoint is reached, the line after mhy breakpoint is printed, and the (Pdb) prompt is shown on the console, but I cannot then type in a pdb command: characters are not shown on the console when typed and there is no evidence that the commands are being executed.
So, how do you guys debug? What am I doing wrong?