http://simonwillison.net/2010-03-23T09:48:09+00:00Simon Willison2010-03-23T09:48:09+00:002010-03-23T09:48:09+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Mar/23/xattr/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://listbot.org/blog/python/2010/03/22/pdb/">Fun with TextMate and PDB</a></strong></p> TextMate bookmarks (against lines in a file) are stored as OS X extended attributes, which can be accessed from Python using the xattr module. Here’s a clever piece of code that uses bookmarks to set breakpoints in the command-line pdb debugger. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/debugging">debugging</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/macos">macos</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pdb">pdb</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/textmate">textmate</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/xattr">xattr</a></p>