replace ptvsd by debugpy

.pylintrc

@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ ignored-classes=optparse.Values,thread._local,_thread._local
 # (useful for modules/projects where namespaces are manipulated during runtime
 # and thus existing member attributes cannot be deduced by static analysis). It
 # supports qualified module names, as well as Unix pattern matching.
-ignored-modules=pymxs,ptvsd,PySide2,menuhook,mxthread,socketio
+ignored-modules=pymxs,debugpy,PySide2,menuhook,mxthread,socketio
 
 # Show a hint with possible names when a member name was not found. The aspect
 # of finding the hint is based on edit distance.

README.md

@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ most of the other samples.
 - [realoadmod](/src/packages/reloadmod/README.md) is small tool that will reload all development modules in one
 operation
 
-- [mxvscode](/src/packages/mxvscode/README.md) is a small tool that will automatically import ptvsd (the
+- [mxvscode](/src/packages/mxvscode/README.md) is a small tool that will automatically import debugpy (the
 VSCode debugging interface) during the startup of 3ds Max and make it accept remote connections.
 This may slow down the startup of 3ds Max quite a bit and is meant as a developer-only tool.
 

src/packages/mxvscode/README.md

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # mxsvscode
 VSCode debugging integration for 3ds Max.
 
-This package installs ptvsd and enables debugging with vscode at the startup
+This package installs debugpy and enables debugging with vscode at the startup
 of 3ds Max.

src/packages/mxvscode/mxvscode/__init__.py

@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 """
     Enable vscode debugging during the startup of 3ds Max.
 """
-import ptvsd
+import sys
+import os
+import debugpy
+
 def startup():
     """
         Allow the remote vscode debugger to attach to the 3ds Max Python
@@ -10,5 +13,13 @@ def startup():
     print("""mxvscode startup enabling vscode debugging
             (if you don't use VSCode for debugging Python you can uninstall
             mxvscode)""")
-    ptvsd.enable_attach()
-    print("-- now ready to receive debugging connections from vscode")
+
+    sysexec = sys.executable
+    (base, file) = os.path.split(sys.executable)
+    if file.lower() == "3dsmax.exe":
+        sys.executable = os.path.join(base, "python", "python.exe")
+    host = "localhost"
+    port = 5678
+    debugpy.listen((host, port))
+    print(f"-- now ready to receive debugging connections from vscode on (${host}, ${port})")
+    sys.executable = sysexec

src/packages/mxvscode/setup.py

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
     packages=setuptools.find_packages(),
     install_requires=[
-        'ptvsd'
+        'debugpy'
     ],
     entry_points={'3dsMax': 'startup=mxvscode:startup'},
     python_requires='>=3.7'