How to attach debugger to a python subproccess?

Question

I need to debug a child process spawned by multiprocessing.Process(). The pdb degugger seems to be unaware of forking and unable to attach to alrea

Answer 1

This is an elaboration of Romuald's answer which restores the original stdin using its file descriptor. This keeps readline working inside the debugger. Besides, pdb special management of KeyboardInterrupt is disabled, in order it not to interfere with multiprocessing sigint handler.

class ForkablePdb(pdb.Pdb):

    _original_stdin_fd = sys.stdin.fileno()
    _original_stdin = None

    def __init__(self):
        pdb.Pdb.__init__(self, nosigint=True)

    def _cmdloop(self):
        current_stdin = sys.stdin
        try:
            if not self._original_stdin:
                self._original_stdin = os.fdopen(self._original_stdin_fd)
            sys.stdin = self._original_stdin
            self.cmdloop()
        finally:
            sys.stdin = current_stdin