Merge pull request #3606 from laloch/xontrib-pdb

Add pdb xontrib

news/xontrib-pdb.rst

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+**Added:**
+
+* ``pdb`` xontrib, that runs pdb debugger on reception of SIGUSR1 signal.
+
+**Changed:**
+
+* <news item>
+
+**Deprecated:**
+
+* <news item>
+
+**Removed:**
+
+* <news item>
+
+**Fixed:**
+
+* <news item>
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+**Security:**
+
+* <news item>

xonsh/xontribs.json

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   "description": ["Get identifiers, names, paths, URLs and words from the previous command output ",
                   "and use them for the next command."]
  },
+ {"name": "pdb",
+  "package": "xonsh",
+  "url": "http://xon.sh",
+  "description": ["Simple built-in debugger. Runs pdb on reception of SIGUSR1 signal."]
+ },
  {"name": "powerline",
   "package": "xontrib-powerline",
   "url": "https://github.com/santagada/xontrib-powerline",

xontrib/pdb.py

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+"""Simple built-in debugger. Runs pdb on reception of SIGUSR1 signal."""
+import signal
+
+__all__ = ()
+
+
+def handle_sigusr1(sig, frame):
+    print("\nSIGUSR1 signal received. Starting interactive debugger...", flush=True)
+    import pdb
+
+    pdb.Pdb().set_trace(frame)
+
+
+signal.signal(signal.SIGUSR1, handle_sigusr1)