Pycharm Remote Debugger

With PyCharm you can debug your application using an interpreter that is located on the other computer, for example, on a web server or dedicated test machine.

Installation

pip install pycharm_remote_debugger

Steps

1. Create a deployment configuration for a remote interpreter.
   • Ensure that you have SSH access to the remote machine
2. Deploy your application to a remote host
3. Create a Python Debug Server run/debug configuration
   • Specify the port number, and the IDE host address
   • Map the path on the local machine to the path on the remote machine
4. Make sure you are installing pycharm_remote_debugger on the remote machine/container
5. Run your software using pycharm_remote_debugger module:
   • Create and entry point file that execute your code and login to the debugger.

   from pycharm_remote_debugger import PycharmRemoteDebugger
   
   remote_addr = "10.2.55.1"
   port = 6789
   
   debugger = PycharmRemoteDebugger(remote_addr, int(port))
   debugger.debug()
   
   main()  # run your software here

   • Use the command line:

   python -m pycharm_remote_debugger -r 10.2.55.1 -p 6789 -m my_module_name -k module_arg1 -s -k module_arg2

6. Start debugger on pycharm
7. Debug your program :)

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