FYI Just released Qdb, a small & simple remote client/server debugger based on Bdb (Pdb style), wich could be used from a remote terminal to any server (and in the near future, with a nice visual IDE): http://code.google.com/p/rad2py/wiki/QdbRemotePythonDebugger It uses multiprocessing.connection to communicate between the backend and frontend, with a simple JSONRPC-like stream protocol. It could use also Queues or Pipes for communication, and includes a basic frontend (Cmd command line based) that can be replaced with a visual interface (currently working on a wxPython one, but it could be adapted to any framework/toolkit) Quick start guide: 1. Download qdb.py (put in your python path / local folder) 2. Add the following line: import qdb; qdb.set_trace() 3. In a terminal, run: python qdb.py Then run the main program, when the qdb.set_trace() line is reached, you'll see the debugger prompt in your terminal. Also, it can invoke a program to be debugged using pdb like syntax: python -m qdb yourscript.py To connect to a remote server, just change addres and password in the source file. ASAP that will be more configurable. This work was started as a research thesis, but I think it can be used for other purposes too. Comments and contributions are welcome ;-) Best regards Mariano Reingart http://www.sistemasagiles.com.ar http://reingart.blogspot.com