http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/interactive-matplotlib/2008-09-25T11:23:29-07:00ActiveState Code Recipes2008-09-25T11:23:29-07:00Brian McErleanhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/111980/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576515-debugging-a-running-python-process-by-interrupting/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 576515 by <a href="/recipes/users/111980/">Brian McErlean</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/debug/">debug</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/interactive/">interactive</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/remote/">remote</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/signal/">signal</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>This provides code to allow any python program which uses it to be interrupted at the current point, and communicated with via a normal python interactive console. This allows the locals, globals and associated program state to be investigated, as well as calling arbitrary functions and classes.</p> <p>To use, a process should import the module, and call listen() at any point during startup. To interrupt this process, the script can be run directly, giving the process Id of the process to debug as the parameter.</p>