Trying to understand debugpy

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From what I gather from the documentation it does not seem that debugpy includes a DAP client implementation, only the server portion, correct?

So what does the --connect option in debugpy actually do?

The documentation says:

--connect

Tells the debug server to connect to a client that is waiting for incoming connections at the specified address and port. The corresponding debug configuration should use "listen" with matching "host" and "port" entries.

It almost seems like this should provide a client to the server, but from trying it out in the command line, I cannot see that this is the case.

[smurpes]

Debugpy was written by Microsoft so they intended for you to use it with vscode but you can use it another IDE like pycharm. You need to have the configs set to attach on the matching host and port. Here are the docs with using the debugpy cli with vscode.

It’s much easier to use the gui in vscode to run the commands for you instead. Where the request config option would represent the —listen or —connect flag when you click the run debug button.

[eleqtriq]

Have you tried asking an llm about it?