How can I insert a breakpoint in Pelican's code and truly stop it?

[offbyone]

I am trying to inspect part of the pelican core code, and I dropped a breakpoint() where I wanted to look, but running pelican -D seems to do something to stdin/stdout; I couldn't interact with the pdb prompt at all, and the generator just kept going.

Is there some way to effectively insert breakpoints in code running in the Pelican generator? If so, how?

[tobiasmboelz]

Set the environment variable TERM to "dumb". That disables (among other things) the ⠙ Generating... status display, so you can actually use pdb.