Is there a way to attach a debugger to a multi-threaded Python process?

Question

I'm trying to debug a deadlock in a multi-threaded Python application after it has locked up. Is there a way to attach a debugger to inspect the state of the process?

Edit: I'm attempting this on Linux, but it would be great if there were a cross-platform solution. It's Python after all :)

Answer 1

Use Winpdb. It is a platform independent graphical GPL Python debugger with support for remote debugging over a network, multiple threads, namespace modification, embedded debugging, encrypted communication and is up to 20 times faster than pdb.

Features:

• GPL license. Winpdb is Free Software.
• Compatible with CPython 2.3 through 2.6 and Python 3000
• Compatible with wxPython 2.6 through 2.8
• Platform independent, and tested on Ubuntu Gutsy and Windows XP.
• User Interfaces: rpdb2 is console based, while winpdb requires wxPython 2.6 or later.

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