Troubleshooting PyCharm Debug Egg File Path Configuration in 3DSlicer

[shahrokh]

Hello Dear Developers and Users,

OS: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
Slicer: 5.0.2 r30822
PyCharm: 2021.3 (Professional Edition)

First, I must mention that unfortunately, I am unable to set the PyCharm debug egg file path in the latest version of 3DSlicer, which is 5.6.2. I raised this issue in my previous report. As a result, I had to switch to 3DSlicer version 5.0.2 that have this setting.

I am following the steps mentioned on the GitHub site regarding the SlicerDebuggingTools module. As shown in the image below, I have configured the PyCharm settings.

I am following the steps mentioned on the GitHub site regarding the SlicerDebuggingTools module. As shown in the image below, I have configured the PyCharm settings.

I have also configured the settings in 3DSlicer.

As you can see, the .egg file is located at the following path on my system:
/home/sn/pycharm-2021.3/debug-eggs/pydevd-pycharm.egg

Next, I started the Debug Slicer remote debugger in PyCharm.
PyCharm screenshot:

In 3DSlicer, I clicked on “Connect to PyCharm Server.”

As you can see, I am encountering the following error:
Expected: /home/sn/pycharm-2021.3/debug-eggs/pydevd-pycharm.egg/pydevd_attach_to_process/attach_linux_amd64.so to exist.

I should mention that the compressed file pydevd-pycharm.egg located at
/home/sn/pycharm-2021.3/debug-eggs/
contains the pydevd-pycharm.egg file. To investigate this, I extracted the pydevd-pycharm.egg file.
I realized that egg packages can be installed with pip, but it still wasn’t helpful as see below:

Please guide me to solve it. I want to develop and debug my modules in PyCharm.
Best regards.
Shahrokh.

[Amy_Morton]

I’ve been experiencing similar issues getting my Slicer Python Debug connection to PyCharm up and running.

Windows 10 Enterprise 19045.5131
Slicer 5.6.2
PyCharm 2024.3 (Pro)

I had previously installed PyCharm 2024.2.4 and encountered the .egg issue. I also found the stackoverflow thread on extracting- but the path wath still pointed to _attach_proces… under the .egg dir. I uninstalled .2.4 and installed 2024.3.

In PyCharm I configured the remote debugger

and I successfully built the pydev-pycharm within pycharm terminal as instructed:

I also noticed in my extension wizard created test module, the vtk and slicer imports showed an error- on a whim I pip import vtk:

The import pycharm warnings went away…

I updated my .egg path in the 5.6.2 pydebug

Launch the remote debugger

Try to Connect to PyCharm debugger within Slicer… and the process just hangs…

[Amy_Morton]

I created incoming and outgoing port forwarding rules, and updated my pycharm interpreter to the PythonSlicer.exe in my 5.6.2 folder

I am still hanging

[lassoan (Andras Lasso)]

Just for future reference, this was due to a bug in PyCharm. Workaround is described in the extension’s documentation and users may also consider switching to Visual Studio Code.