Highlights:

• Installed the Google Cloud Python Debugger tool
• Lets me debug issues on my server-side code
• Why? A friend found a bug, and I couldn’t find source of issue on server.
• Google’s Python Cloud Debugger is in alpha stage! It’s very buggy
• Installation required a day’s worth of troubleshooting

Context:

A buddy was helping test out the site for me. He ran into an error after submitting his payment details. He said his browser would just refresh after clicking ‘submit.’

I checked the logs on my server in console.cloud.google.com, and saw that there was a simple KeyError for my dictionary.

This type of issue is easy to debug on my computer. However, I had already tested this out locally, and the data passed back shouldn’t be missing the <code>token_id</code> key.

Google thankfully has been developing a debugger tool for our web applications hosted on their servers. However, it was a mission to set it up, since support for Python 3.7 is still in alpha and very buggy. Here’s a breakdown of my issues and how I resolved them:

Production background:

• Server runtime environment is Python 3.7. In my app.yaml file, the first line is <code>runtime: python37</code>
• My local virtual environment is Python 3.7. All of my libraries were installed with this Python version.
• Issue: From their PYPI page, google-python-cloud-debugger only officially supports Python 2.7 and Python 3.6.

Issues I encountered:

Issue: Trying to pip install google-python-cloud-debugger. But keep getting this message:

“Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement google-python-cloud-debugger (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for google-python-cloud-debugger”

Resolved: According to documentation, google-python-cloud-debugger only works for Python 2.7 or Python 3.6. BUT, some parts of the documentation mention that it supports Python 3.7 as well.