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Is there a recipe for using pycharm to debug through pants's own code?

I've seen the <https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/python-test-goal#debugging-tests|recipes to install pydevd-pycharm> as an extra req for pytests when using pants on other repos and the developer docs have <https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/contributions-debugging#debugging-rule-code-with-a-debugger|instructions to debug pants> with vscode/debug-adapter with `PANTS_DEBUG=1`. Been getting along with the vscode version to look through pants internal code, but would love to be able to switch back to pycharm. I'll keep digging for how I may be able to add the requirement into the interpreter that is running the pants src. I'm doing things like `example-python$ PANTS_SOURCE=&lt;path_to_pants_clone&gt; pants test ...`

:face_palm: ok, looks to be as simple as adding it to 3rdparty/requirements.txt. sorry for the bother. if it works, will make an adjustment for the docs.

I wish pycharm would just implement the debug adapter.

They use the same basic library that powers it :disappointed:

<https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/19787> is an addition to the docs for how to debug pants internals with pycharm. It seems to work as expected.