debugpy and python version

[bluss]

Maybe some clarifications are needed, we can install debugpy separately in its own isolated virtualenv, where debugpy and the application being debugged are in separate virtualenvs (is this right?)

Are there any requirements on python versions, do they need to use the same python version or can it be different?

[int19h]

debugpy itself doesn't have any dependencies (that it doesn't vendor), so there's technically no need for it to be installed into any environment - you can even just clone the repo and then do python .../src/debugpy directly.

However, if you do pip install it into an environment, that environment would need to be active for you to be able to do python -m debugpy .... Whichever script or module you pass to debugpy as command-line argument is started using runpy standard module, so it will also run in that environment.

[bluss]

I forgot some crucial context - I'm sorry 🤦‍♂️ -- but thanks for the info!

In the context of this debugger's use of debugpy https://github.com/mfussenegger/nvim-dap-python?tab=readme-ov-file#usage they seem to suggest it will work correctly with application and debugpy in separate virtualenvs, and it actually seems to work that way(?), but what about separate python versions in those enivronments?

[int19h]

Ah, I see. Yes, it is fine to have separate Python versions in this case.