rpdb - remote debugger based on pdb

rpbm is a wrapper around pdb that re-routes stdin and stdout to a socket handler. By default it opens the debugger on port 4444:

import rpdb; rpdb.set_trace()

But you can change that by simply instantiating Rpdb manually:

import rpdb
debugger = rpdb.Rpdb(12345)
debugger.set_trace()

It is known to work on Jython 2.5 to 2.7, Python 2.5 to 3.1. It was written originally for Jython since this is pretty much the only way to debug it when running it on Tomcat.

Upon reaching set_trace(), your script will “hang” and the only way to get it to continue is to access rpdb using telnet, netcat, etc..:

nc 127.0.0.1 4444

0.1.4 (2014-04-28)

• Expose the addr, port arguments to the set_trace method (thanks to @niedbalski).

0.1.3 (2013-08-02)

• Remove a try/finally that seemed to shift the trace location (thanks to @k4ml).

0.1.2 (2012-01-26)

• Catch IOError raised by print in initialization, it may not work in some environments (e.g. mod_wsgi). (Menno Smits)

0.1.1 (2010-05-09)

Initial release.