saving Python process state for later debugging

[aspineux]

On 31 mar, 16:48, yossi.krei... at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Is there a way to save the state of a Python process for later
> inspection with a debugger? One way to do this is to dump core, but is
> the result usable for debugging with pdb (it can be debugged by gdb,
> which can inspect PyObjects in a CPython core, for example, but it's
> not much fun)?
>
> If there is no way to do this today, are there essential difficulties
> in implementing this on top of an OS support for "raw" core dumps?

Pylon has something like that.
http://pylonshq.com/docs/0.9.4.1/interactive_debugger.html

Turbogears has the same with option tg.fancy_exception

You can navigate into the stack trace from the web interface :-)



>
> TIA,
> Yossi