Debugging IDAPython Scripts outside of IDAPro

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Published on 2012-09-01T15:36:57Z Indexed on 2012/09/01 15:37 UTC
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I'm kinda new to scripting for IDA - nevertheless, I've written a complex script I need to debug, as it is not working properly.

It is composed of a few different files containing a few different classes. Writing line-by-line in the commandline is not effective for obvious reasons. Running a whole script from the File doesn't allow debugging.

Is there a way of using the idc, idautils, idaapi not from within IDA?

I've written the script on PyDev for Eclipse, I'm hoping for a way to run the scripts from within it.

A similar question is, can the api classes I have mentioned work on idb files without IDA having them loaded?

Thanks.

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