At 01:15 PM 2/10/2006 -0800, Heikki Toivonen wrote:
Grant figured out a way to debug Chandler threads with ActiveState Komodo (see http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/DebuggingChandler#Multi_threaded_debugging_in_Komo) and I have figured out how to do it with Eclipse and the pydev plugin (in theory, since there is a bug that prevents me from trying it out).
Unless the pydev debugger is designed to support multiple threads, your trick isn't actually going to work. The Komodo trick presumably works because Komodo's designed to accept connections from multiple threads, and thus it ends up creating a *separate* trace hook (using sys.settrace()) for each thread. Your trick for pydev is simply sharing a single trace hook, which will create havoc as the debugger receives events from several threads in a random and non re-entrant fashion, unless pydev was specifically designed to allow this.
The same issue will apply for any Python debugger that isn't designed for multi-thread debugging, and from what's been said so far about Wing, that would appear to be the case for Wing as well.
To do multi-thread debugging in Python, you *must* have a debugger that was designed for it. Otherwise, you can only use it as a single-thread debugger, and maybe you can pick which thread. But you can only be setting breakpoints in *one* thread at a time if it's not designed for multi-threading.
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