Is there a forum for discussing the development of PIO, itself?

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Hello.

I’m trying to chase down a possible bug in platformio-core. I would like to be able fire up the PyCharm debugger and step through the relevant code.

I’ve cloned the platformio-core repository, run tox, and opened the directory in PyCharm.

I have no idea how to actually debug it at this point. Also, the IDE is complaining that it can’t find the clickor semantic_version imports.

TIA,

D.

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I don’t see anything beyond https://github.com/platformio/platformio-core/blob/develop/CONTRIBUTING.md, so I would suggest asking https://github.com/platformio/platformio-core/issues. Not having debug instructions while developing the PlatformIO core is a defect in the documentation.

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I’ve never tried to debug (step by step) PIO Core using Python’s tools. While generic commands can be debugged, commands like pio run, pio debug, etc., internally invoke SCons in a multi-process environment.

I’ve cloned the platformio-core repository, ran tox, and opened the directory in PyCharm.

That’s correct. Next, just switch to the virtual environment that tox created:

source .tox/py314/bin/activate
which pio
pio --version
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Okay. That shows the version in my project directory (I think). But how do I debug a command?

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You can directly use the platformio module in pair with the Python Debugger. An example:

python -m platformio --help