https://github.com/elifiner/pydump

Create coredump like file from Python to post-mortem debug later
https://github.com/elifiner/pydump

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Create coredump like file from Python to post-mortem debug later

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/elifiner/pydump
• Owner: elifiner
• Created: 2012-12-19T14:22:52.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-08-06T09:52:33.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-09-15T02:29:29.385Z (about 2 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 25.4 KB
• Stars: 75
• Watchers: 7
• Forks: 20
• Open Issues: 4
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  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
Python post-mortem debugging

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Pydump writes the traceback of an exception into a file and 

can later load it in a Python debugger. It works with the built-in 

pdb and with other popular debuggers (pudb, ipdb and pdbpp).

Why I wrote this?

=================

I spent way too much time trying to discern details about bugs from

logs that don't have enough information in them. Wouldn't it be nice

to be able to open a debugger and load the entire stack of the crashed

process into it and look around like you would if it crashed on your own 

machine?

Possible uses

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This project (or approach) might be useful in multiprocessing environments

running many unattended processes. The most common case for me is on

production web servers that I can't really stop and debug. For each 

exception caught, I write a dump file and I can debug each issue on 

my own time, on my own box, even if I don't have the source, since 

the relevant source is stored in the dump file.

Version History

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1.2.0

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* Port to Python 3

1.1.1

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* Fixed a few small bugs.

1.1.0

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* Now storing built-in datatypes and custom class data members

  instead of their string representations.

1.0.0

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* First public version