Re^2: Using Data::Printer from the Perl debugger

[ibm1620]

Thanks! Interestingly, the documentation specifies putting this into .perldb:

$DB::alias{px} = 's/px/DB::px/';
sub px {
    my $expr = shift;
    require Data::Printer;
    print Data::Printer::p($expr);
}

Which causes $expr to be printed twice, once colorized, and once uncolorized, as one might expect. Changing that last line to

Data::Printer::p($expr);

fixes it.

[LanX]

IMHO someone should file a bug report with both modules.

I think one of the authors had the behavior of Data::Dump::pp() in mind which doesn't print by itself when called in a non void context.

And the other one just copied the doc without testing.

[ibm1620]

I'll be glad to, but I haven't done so before. Could you point me in the right direction?

[LanX]

Different authors prefer different channels, normally expressed on CPAN.

This one wants GitHub issues

From https://metacpan.org/dist/Data-Printer/contribute

> The main place to discuss about DDP's bugs and features is Github's ticketing system.

--> https://github.com/garu/Data-Printer/issues/

I'm afraid you'll need a github account for that.

[JoseRijo]

I found this issue and have been trying to adopt DB::Pluggable for a couple of years now. The version on CPAN is not the same as the one in github. I have a version that fixes the issue.

https://github.com/kcaran/DB-Pluggable