Why "dirty"? Attaching and inspecting a live process without cooperation is something that should be expected. pdb is quite limited in what it can debug if you

Why "dirty"? Attaching and inspecting a live process without cooperation is something that should be expected. pdb is quite limited in what it can debug if you have a stuck process which is very hard to reproduce. I've resorted to gdb + python extensions too many times to count (which basically allows you do what pyrasite does, though at a lower level).