Hi folks,

If you have done a lot of debugging with ipdb on Python projects in a windows environment using tools like Git bash, you may notice that it’s not very easy to exit ipdb. Pressing familiar keys like Ctrl + c doesn’t work. Here’s how to exit ipdb in Windows:

Run the following command

import os; os._exit(0)

That’s all for now. Till next time.

Hi folks,

In this post I talk about how to pip install Python projects from source.

Let’s say you have a project that you can normally install via pip using a command like pip install someproject, but you want to make some customization to the project.

Here’s how to go about it.

• First, clone the project from Github.
• Make any modifications to the project source code as desired.
• Then change to the project’s root directory.
• Run the following command to install the project

pip install -e . 

• If you have the project’s library already installed and you upgrade that version to the latest from your source code using command

pip install -e . -U

That’s all for now. Happy software development.