Could a disable_attach API available?

[buddyliao]

ptvsd offers an enable_attach() API for us to start the debug, however, if we want to disable the debugger, we need to restart the python process, I am wonder whether a disable_attach API is available for us to stop the debugger？

[fabioz]

As debugpy is built upon pydevd, I think you can use:

import pydevd
pydevd.stoptrace()

for that.

-- please let me know if that works for you (if it does a debugpy wrapper should probably be provided for that to keep it consistent with other calls).

[fabioz]

@buddyliao as a note, ptvsd is now rebranded as debugpy (so, new issues should go there).

@karthiknadig @int19h can you move this issue to https://github.com/microsoft/debugpy?

[buddyliao]

Dear fabioz,
Thank you for your reply.
I know pydevd has API stoptrace, but it seems like that it doesn't have api to wait for client's attach, like debugpy.wait_for_client or ptvsd.wait_for_attach.

As debugpy is built upon pydevd, I think you can use:

import pydevd
pydevd.stoptrace()

for that.

-- please let me know if that works for you (if it does a debugpy wrapper should probably be provided for that to keep it consistent with other calls).

[fabioz]

I wasn't suggesting that you use it for client attach, just to stop tracing while there's no debugpy equivalent -- or maybe I'm misunderstanding... what do you expect from `debugpy.disable_attach'?

[buddyliao]

Thank you fabioz.
I want to use IDE to debug remote python app, so I also need a wait_for_attach API in some situations. For disable_attach API, just stop tracing is OK. Actually, pydevd.stoptrace() works, but it's better if pydevd.stoptrace is packaged in debugpy.disable_attach API. Since I just need to import debugpy module, otherwise I also need to import pydevd module as well.

[int19h]

Since the API is now debugpy.listen(), the proposed counterpart would be named debugpy.stop_listening().

[judej]

Thank you for the report. Given our current resources are working on the Python 3.12 debugger, we will not be fixing this issues in the pre Python 3.12 debugger.

[Andrej730]

Is there some current workaround to stop the debugging server? pydevd.stoptrace() doesn't seem to help.
Can we keep this issue open to indicate that it's unresolved?

import debugpy
port = 9992
debugpy.listen(port)
print('start debug server')

import pydevd
pydevd.stoptrace()
print('debug server stopped')

debugpy.listen(port)
# RuntimeError: timed out waiting for adapter to connect

# never printed:
print('debug server restarted')

[heartacker]

please

[nhadziosma1]

There is so much of us who would really appreciate if you could implement a function like debugpy.stop_listening() and/or debugpy.disconnect(), and thus I think that this issue should not be considered as 'Closed', but actually prioritized.

[heartacker]

yes please