(a) This can be solved with an editor. Alternatively, you can use a function name instead of `filename:linenumber` to set a breakpoint. (b) Pdb supports condit

(a) This can be solved with an editor. Alternatively, you can use a function name instead of `filename:linenumber` to set a breakpoint. (b) Pdb supports conditions with `filename:lineno, statement`. Statement will have access to local scope. E.g.: $ python -m manage.py runserver (Pdb) break manage.py:11, os.environ["DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE"] == "myproj.settings" Breakpoint 1 at /Users/hcarvalhoalves/Projetos/myproj/manage.py:11 (Pdb) break Num Type Disp Enb Where 1 breakpoint keep yes at /Users/hcarvalhoalves/Projetos/myproj/manage.py:11 stop only if os.environ["DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE"] == "myproj.settings" Really, it does a bunch of things. I wonder why developers are unaware of it. http://docs.python.org/2/library/pdb.html http://docs.python.org/2/library/pdb.html