Debugger times out at “Collecting data…”

Question

I am debugging a Python (3.5) program with PyCharm (PyCharm Community Edition 2016.2.2 ; Build #PC-162.1812.1, built on August 16, 2016 ; JRE: 1.8.0_76-releas

Answer 1

I had the same question when i use pycharm2018.2 to debug my web application.

The project is a complex flask web server that combined with SocketIO.

When I made a debug breakpoint inside the code then pressed the debug button, it stopped at the breakpoint, but the variables didn't load. It just collected data data. I made some tweaks to the debugger settings in the end and this made it work. See the following image for the setting to change: