Debugging for Entry Points / console_scripts

[rigelifland]

I'm not sure if this belongs in microsoft/debugpy or microsoft/vscode-python, but it would be nice to be able to debug entry points for a module/package. I found this SO question describing this issue: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61693769/vs-code-run-debug-configuration-for-a-console-script-in-module-mode

The syntax mentioned in the SO question seems reasonable, but I don't know enough about how launch.json works to know if it's appropriate.

"module": "my_package.my_module:my_entry_point"

[joshbode]

My solution to this is to add a __main__.py file to my_package to make it runnable, something like this:

import sys

from my_package.my_module import my_entry_point

if __name__ == "__main__":
    sys.exit(my_entry_point(sys.argv[1:]))

and then you should be able to use "module": "my_package" to launch the debugger.
You'll also be able to "run" the module via python -m my_package ... as a bonus :)

[int19h]

Note that there's also "code", which lets you write the same thing directly in your launch.json, e.g.:

"code": "import sys; from my_package.my_module import my_entry_point; sys.exit(my_entry_point(sys.argv[1:]))"

[int19h]

That aside, the feature request to support it directly is tracked at #1311