Advanced Debugging Topics

This chapter describes advanced debugging techniques, including debugging externally launched code, remote debugging, alternative methods for starting debug, and using Wing's debugger together with a debugger for C/C++ code.

See also the collection of How-Tos for tips on working with specific third party libraries and frameworks for Python.

Section Contents

17.0. Debugging Externally Launched Code
    17.0.0. Debugging Externally Launched Remote Code
    17.0.1. Externally Launched Process Behavior
    17.0.2. Debugging Embedded Python Code
    17.0.3. Configuring wingdbstub
    17.0.4. Starting Debug Automatically Using sitecustomize
    17.0.5. Debugger API
17.1. Manually Configured Remote Debugging
    17.1.0. Manually Configuring SSH Tunneling
    17.1.1. File Location Maps
       17.1.1.0. Manually Configured File Location Maps
       17.1.1.1. Manually Configured File Location Map Examples
    17.1.2. Manually Configured Remote Debugging Example
    17.1.3. Manually Installing the Debugger
17.2. Using wingdb to Initiate Debug
17.3. Attaching and Detaching
17.4. Debugging C/C++ and Python Together
    17.4.0. Debugging Extension Modules on Linux/Unix
17.5. Debugging Non-Python Mainloops
17.6. Debugging Linux Code with XGrab* Calls
17.7. Debugger Limitations