From 0fa077989d85719aaf17c48b926e9fd1f47c9a8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Zweili <andreas@2li.ch>
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 11:33:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add a debug function to work with pdb

---
 borg_qt/helper.py | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/borg_qt/helper.py b/borg_qt/helper.py
index 1399d9c..c77ae11 100644
--- a/borg_qt/helper.py
+++ b/borg_qt/helper.py
@@ -10,6 +10,16 @@ class BorgException(Exception):
     pass
 
 
+# This was taken from here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1745965/7723859
+def debug_trace():
+    '''Set a tracepoint in the Python debugger that works with Qt'''
+    from PyQt5.QtCore import pyqtRemoveInputHook
+
+    from pdb import set_trace
+    pyqtRemoveInputHook()
+    set_trace()
+
+
 def show_error(e):
     """Helper function to show an error dialog."""
     message = QMessageBox()