How to go to top frame in pdb python debugger

Question

When pdb / ipdb is used in post-mortem mode, it drops you into an interactive shell where you can explore the environment at the stack frame of the most deeply nested code. I'm usually not interested in the situation several levels down into some library. I am facing an issue in the function. I have to press "u" several times to get back up to the level of the code I wrote.

Is there a way I can jump to the "top" to speed this up? Can anyone tell me a shortcut to go straight to a particular stack frame?

Answer 1

You can use a PdbExtension for this.

See https://github.com/fschulze/pytest-pdb/pull/5 where this is about to be added to pytest-pdb.