Open Source Python Debuggers for Linux

A disassembler for the linux platform. Currently this supports x86 ELF files assumed to be written in C and output to intel- syntax assembly language; however the design is modular and replacements for any of these can be written.

This is a port of the GNU C Compiler (GCC) and GNU Binutils (as, ld) for the embedded processor MSP430. Tools for debugging and download are provided (GDB, JTAG and BSL) Obsolete. See http://www.ti.com/tool/msp430-gcc-opensource or upstream GNU tools.

The Virtual USB Analyzer is a graphical tool for browsing traces of captured USB data. It supports logs generated by Ellisys hardware analyzers and VMware's software analyzer, and Linux's usbmon.

vimspector is a powerful debugging plugin for Vim and Neovim designed to bring IDE-style debugging capabilities (breakpoints, stepping, call stacks, watch windows) into the modal editor world. It supports multiple languages (C++, Python, TCL among others) via the Debug Adapter Protocol (DAP) model and provides an in-editor UI for viewing scopes, variables, stack frames, output windows and more. You configure it per-project via a .vimspector.json file (or per file type) specifying the adapter, launch configuration or attach process. Once configured you can run, pause, step into/out/over, set and clear breakpoints and inspect variables directly in Vim splits or floating windows. The UI is heavy compared to typical Vim plugins (multiple panes, layouts) but it fills the gap for users who want an integrated debug workflow without leaving the editor.

Pwndbg is a fast, simple and lightweight tool for modern debugging. It improves debugging experience with the strength of GDB for low-level software developers, hardware hackers, reverse engineers, and exploit developers. It provides features crucial for efficient debugging in the world of low-level programming. Vanilla GDB is terrible to use for reverse engineering and exploit development. Typing x/g30x $esp is not fun, and does not confer much information. The year is 2024 and GDB still lacks a real hexdump command! GDB's syntax is arcane and difficult to approach. Windbg users are completely lost when they occasionally need to bump into GDB.

A RAD GUI Building IDE for wxPython.

Python framework to analyze Linux crash dumps programmatically from 'crash' and tools written using it. Documentation (a work in progress!) is available at: https://pykdump.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Cinemagoer is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage the data of the IMDb movie database about movies, people, characters and companies. Platform-independent, it can retrieve data from both the IMDb's web server and a local copy of the whole db.

PyChecker is a static analysis tool for finding bugs in Python source code. It finds problems that are typically caught by a compiler for less dynamic languages, like C and C++. It is similar to lint.

Unfortunately this project has been suspended. If you wish to continue its development on your own, please feel free to contact me. UnPyc is a tool for disassembling, analyzing and decompiling Python's *.pyc and *.pyo files. UnPyc supports Python 2.5, 2.6.

SPE is a python IDE with auto indentation&completion,call tips,syntax coloring&highlighting,uml viewer,class explorer,source index,todo list,pycrust shell,file browsers,drag&drop,Blender support.Spe ships with wxGlade,PyChecker and Kiki.

File-Spector is a small, fast and easy to use binary file analyzer and Inspector. It allows the users to format a complete binary file structure and then use it to read any binary file that matches the specified format.

jbytecode is a Java bytecode disassembler/assembler written in Python. Dissasembly code is aligned with Java bytecodes in the class file so modification and re-assembly is always possible, even when class is obfuscated.

Another Debugger for Python was written in Python3 using PySimpleGui and has a window showing your script and some buttons and another window showing variables and their values. The buttons entirely control ADP, they are accompanied by help buttons. ADP stores details of the path taken by your script and variables and their values in a SQLITE3 database. The current release supports LIVE running. A future release will support DEAD running. In DEAD runs you’ll be able to replay a LIVE run from the database recording, which means that you can start at any point and travel in either direction and the value of the variables will be those that were current at that point of time in the LIVE run. Imagine your script crashed and you can replay from there backwards, and see how you got there and the values the variables had. Extra functionality will allow running queries forwards and backwards.

It is a Process Monitoring Toolkit with the ability of Extend. E.g. You can use it to monitor a specified process. And set a triger like (over 50MB mem use) then do something like (report to DB).

Dionea (Dionea Musclipla, meaning Venus Fly Catcher)- an asynchronous thread-aware, peer-aware, and session-aware distributed debugger for Ruby and Python. A notable feature is to trace the sessions of the web applicaions using Rails and TurboGears.

ChatDBG is an AI-assisted debugging tool that integrates large language models into standard debuggers like pdb, lldb, and gdb. It allows developers to engage in a dialog with the debugger, asking open-ended questions about their program's behavior, and provides error diagnoses and suggested fixes.

Clint is a testbed for static source-code checking techniques. It is currently designed to check C++ for common programmer errors and suggest improvements.

CodeInvestigator is a tracing tool for Python programs. All the run time information is recorded. Read your code together with its run time details. Use it to visualize what happened when you program ran.

This project attempts to solve a long aching problem of a lack of a simple, yet powerful GUI for GDB. One that handles STL data types and allows easy extensibility. Requires: Python 2.7.x PySide (Qt python bindings: e.g. apt-get install python-pyside)

A program to apply a link map to a Mac OS X crash log that came from a build without traceback tables. The output contains at least as much information as would the same crash log from a corresponding build with traceback tables.

FIDe is a software-based fault injector designed to validate Fault-Tolerant mechanisms and techniques used by applications. It was first used to measure database recovery coverage and costs, but can be used to test and validate ordinary applications.

FlowLens MCP Server is an open-source tool designed to give AI-powered coding agents (like Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot / Codex, and others) full, replayable browser context to dramatically improve debugging, bug reporting, and regression testing for web applications. It works together with a companion browser extension: when a user reproduces a bug or a complicated UI interaction, the extension captures a rich session log, including screen/video recording, network traffic, console logs, DOM events, storage changes, and more, and exports it. The MCP server then loads this captured “flow” and exposes it to the AI agent via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), letting the agent examine, search, filter, and reason about the session just as a human developer would, without needing the agent to re-run the flow or rely on minimal reproduction data (logs, screenshots).

GEF is a set of commands for x86/64, ARM, MIPS, PowerPC and SPARC to assist exploit developers and reverse-engineers when using old-school GDB. It provides additional features to GDB using the Python API to assist during the process of dynamic analysis and exploit development. Application developers will also benefit from it, as GEF lifts a great part of regular GDB obscurity, avoiding repeating traditional commands or bringing out the relevant information from the debugging runtime.

GObject reference counting debugger. A tool to help track down hard to find reference counting bugs in GObject, GTK and Gnome programs.