ppms.debugging

The debugging package contains code to facilitate debugging of Python code

See the Python Debugging topic for more information

Functions

Function	Parameters	Return Value	Description
ask_for_password`()`		Password string or None	Ask the user for a password to use for identification of remote debugging instances
start_remote_debugger`(password,` `show_message=True)`	password: Password to identify the remote debugger show_message: `True` / `False`		Start the remote Python debugger (`rpdb2`) with the chosen password. The password must start with a letter and not contain any umlauts. When `show_message` is True, a message appears to the user, telling him to connect now.

Tip:

By default the debugee will wait 30 seconds for the debugger to connect. This can be changed with the global setting debugger_timeout