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

[Fabio Z. <fa...@es...>]

> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Leo Soto M. <leo...@gm...> wrote:
> [...]
>> Under Jython it doesn't start a new process, but a new thread. The
>> thread is started using thread.start_new_thread though, which makes it
>> untraceable.
>
> For the sake of correctness I must say I shouldn't have used
> "untraceable" here. There is nothing preventing the thread code to be
> traced. It's just that the threading.settrace() hook only works for
> threads started using the threading module, but not for the ones
> started using the low-level thread module.
>

An idea might be asking the Django guys to make it more friendly to
debuggers so that this can be easier -- maybe even passing a patch to
them -- this is one of the things I have in my checklist after the
django integration is in place.

Best Regards,

Fabio