[Pydev-code] PyDev Debugger: Monkeypatch thread.start_new_thread to debug threads?

[Leo S. M. <leo...@gm...>]

Hi all,

When running the Django server under the PyDev debugger there is a
problem: Under Jython the server spawns a worker thread which do all
the actual work while the main thread just keeps monitoring the
filesystem for changes. But, AFAICS, the pydev debugger only monitors
the main thread.

I'm playing with monkey-patching thread.start_new_thread to set
sys.settrace to the internal settrace function used with PyDev when
executing the function in the new thread.

Any obvious reason I'm missing why that may be a bad idea?
-- 
Leo Soto M.
http://blog.leosoto.com