Disable source printing in ipdb

Question

How do I disable the default printing of source context in ipdb? I'm calling ipdb from within Emacs realgud so I don't need to see the source i the ipdb prompt.

The code

import ipdb
ipdb.set_trace()

can be executed inside the ipdb shell itself but

ipdb.set_trace(context=5)

fails as

*** TypeError: set_trace() got an unexpected keyword argument 'context'

Is this the wrong way?

Answer 1

The way python trepan and trepan3k handle this is via set autolist. Come to think of it, all of my debuggers handle it this way and so do some of the ruby debuggers like rdebug since that's where I got the idea from.