eric7.DebugClients.Python.MultiprocessingExtension

Module implementing a function to patch multiprocessing.Process to support debugging of the process.

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Classes

Functions

EricDefaultContext

Class replacing the original 'set_start_method()' method.

This is done in order to prevent a script to be debugged changing the method to 'forkserver' because the debugger cannot handle this.

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Class Methods

Methods

Static Methods

EricDefaultContext.get_all_start_methods

Public method to get a list of supported start methods.

Return:

list of supported start methods

Return Type:

list of str

EricDefaultContext.get_context

Public method to get a context object of the given method.

method (str | None (optional))

start method of the new context (defaults to None)

Return:

created context object

Return Type:

BaseContext

EricDefaultContext.set_start_method

Public method to set the start method for starting new processes.

method (str)

start method name

force (bool (optional))

flag indicating to set it even if one was set already (defaults to False)

ProcessWrapper

Wrapper class for multiprocessing.Process.

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Static Methods

ProcessWrapper._bootstrap

Wrapper around _bootstrap to start debugger.

args (list)

function arguments

kwargs (dict)

keyword only arguments

Return:

exit code of the process

Return Type:

int

patchMultiprocessing

Function to patch the multiprocessing module.

module (module)

reference to the imported module to be patched

debugClient (DebugClient)

reference to the debug client object