On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 12:36 PM, R0b0t1 <r03...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 11:53 AM, Raffaele Belardi > <raffaele.bela...@st.com> wrote: >> (Moved from [pycharm-community vs pycharm-professional] thread) >> >> R0b0t1 wrote: >>> On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 10:54 AM, Raffaele Belardi >>>> I'd use Python to develop programs for fun on an ARM-linux embedded board, >>>> with the host >>>> PC running Gentoo. I suppose that for debugging on the target I'd need >>>> this feature: >>>> "Remote run/debug" which is available only in the (pycharm)Pro edition, >>>> right? >>>> >>> >>> Usually what I see is either sftp or rsync (over ssh) to the remote >>> computer, then ssh to run the updated files. Alternatively you can ssh >>> to the remote host and run vim within that session. >>> >> >> I suppose vim on Host + ssh for transfer/run would be fine for me. >> >> For debugging I saw some support for python is available in gdb but I'm not >> sure of the >> environment, would I run gdb on the host or on the target (via gdbserver)? >> Also, is gdb a viable solution given the interpreted nature of python or I'd >> better start >> off with some GUI/IDE? >> >> I normally use gdb/gdbserver for embedded C debugging so I'm fine with the >> gdb command >> line interface. >> > > This is where it gets a bit weird... It seems there are multiple > custom remote debug implementations. > > From some discussion on what PyCharm does (how it was broken by a > company firewall) it looks like it starts an ssh connection to the > target machine and runs pdb. PyDev may do something similar but it > looks like it replaces pdb with its own module. > > Microsoft uses https://github.com/Microsoft/ptvsd. Visual Studio Code > is actually quite good and should run on Gentoo - it is open source, > as is their remote python debugger. I had forgotten about it but if > you want a GUI do strongly consider it.
Also this, sorry - https://github.com/quantopian/qdb.
