chromedebug

A Chrome remote debugging protocol server for Python.

It's quite similar in concept to Chrome Logger but allows real-time communication and does not rely on any extensions.

Setting up the server:

Start by running your code using the chromedebug script. It will create a new thread and open a websocket for Chrome to connect to.

$ chromedebug myfile.py some args

Then navigate your browser (a recent release of Chrome is required) to the following url:

chrome://devtools/devtools.html?ws=0.0.0.0:9222

If Chrome claims that the URL is invalid, enable and disable the DevTools panel (F12) and then it will work.

The console

The console module offers an API similar to the one found in your browser:

from chromedebug import console

console.log('Current time is', datetime.datetime.now())
console.warn('Oh my', None)
console.error('EEEK!')

Avoid string interpolation and let the library serialize your objects instead. You can pass almost any object and then inspect its contents in the browser.

The debugger

This should Just Work™.

from chromedebug import debugger

debugger.set_trace()

The profiler

This should Just Work™. Yes, it does say JavaScript although it will happily profile your Python code.

Alpha quality

Please do not use this anywhere near production environments. This is a proof of concept. Current code hardly ever frees memory and needs lots of refactoring and probably a better API.