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The Bdb.runcall method shows a prompt right at the beginning of the function. If breakpoints are defined, it is sometimes handy to skip the prompt until the next breakpoint, if any.
This use case came up in our development environment for a Django application, from where we needed to set breakpoints only for certain request, allowing other request to run without interruption. Our solution was to wrap with a WSGI middleware, something like this:
 import sys
 from bdb import BdbQuit
 from pdb import Pdb
 class DebuggingMiddleware(object):
 def __init__(self, app):
 self.aplicacion = app
 self.debugger = Pdb()
 our_setup_breakpoints_function(self.debugger)
 def __call__(self, environ, start_response):
 environ['DEBUGGER'] = self.debugger
 frame = sys._getframe()
 self.debugger.reset()
 frame.f_trace = self.debugger.trace_dispatch
 self.debugger.botframe = frame
 self.debugger._set_stopinfo(frame, None, -1)
 sys.settrace(self.debugger.trace_dispatch)
 try:
 return self.aplicacion(environ, start_response)
 except BdbQuit:
 pass # Return None implicitly
 finally:
 self.debugger.quitting = 1
 sys.settrace(None)
As you can see, it is basically a mix of Bdb.set_trace and Bdb.set_continue which we came up by trial and error. If there was something like Bdb.runcall_no_prompt or an extra flag to Bdb.runcall to trigger this behaviour, this copy and paste would not be necessary.