Re: [Pydev-code] Disconnecting/Reconnecting to Debug Server

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

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Keith Lackey <cgc...@gm...> wrote:
> I was wondering if there is any plans to support disconnecting/reconnecting
> to the debug server. Right now you can create a debug server from within
> eclipse, and then connect to it from an external interpreter via
> pydevd.settrace(...). but as far as i can tell its not possible to then
> disconnect from the server once connected without restarting the
> application. In most cases this is OK but we started using this to debug our
> scripts that are running from with Maya and restarting Maya really isn't an
> optimal workflow. A better workflow would be to be able to connect to the
> debug server when i need to start debugging and once i'm done, disconnect
> from the server, and be able to reconnect at a later point when i need to
> debug some more without a restart of Maya.
> sorta something like this:
> pydevd.connect(stdoutToServer=True, stderrToServer=True)
> import myModule
> myModule.myFunction()
> pydevd.disconnect()
> I've tried to hack a solution up myself but because i
> don't totally understand whats going on under the
> hood, I've only succeeded in crashing Maya.
> Any help would be great.

This shouldn't be difficult to do. Please enter a feature request for that.

Cheers,

Fabio