how to debug python fabric using pycharm

Question

There are some posts on SO and tell me to use fab-script.py as startup script for pycharm. It's exactly what I used before. Now when I upgrade fabric to latest version, fab-script disappeared, and only fab.exe left there. I tried a lot of other ways, but still failed to launch debugger in pycharm.

Answer 1

How to run/debug Fabric (Fab) command in Pycharm

1. run which fab from your virtualenv and take the output path
2. create new run/debug configuration with type = python script

3. configure it

   • script path = output from p.1
   • parameters = *
   • working directory =

Example

• script path: /home/xxx/.virtualenvs/some/bin/fab
• parameters: local-restore-db --dump argument

Answer 2

I haven't used this setup on Windows, but on Linux/Mac, it's fairly straightforward:

1. Create a new Run Configuration in PyCharm for a Python script (when you click the "+" button, select the one labelled "Python")
2. The "Configuration" tab should be open.
3. For the "Script" field, enter the full path to fab.exe , like C:\\Python27\\.....\\fab.exe or whatever it is.
4. For Script parameters, just try -l , to list the available commands. You'll tweak this later, and fill it in with whatever tasks you'd run from the command line, like "fab etc... "
5. For the "Working directory" field, you'll want to set that to the directory that contains your fabfile.

And it's about as easy as that, at least on *nix. Sorry that I don't have a Windows setup, but do let us know if you do have any issues with the setup described above.

Answer 3

The final solution is to add line below at fabfile.py:

import fabric.main

if __name__ == '__main__':
    fabric.main.main()

then you can debug the fabfile.py as a normal python script in pycharm.