Issue #136: Add get/set_debug() methods to BaseEventLoopTests. Add also a

PYTHONASYNCIODEBUG environment variable to debug coroutines since Python
startup, to be able to debug coroutines defined directly in the asyncio module.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/asyncio/tasks.py b/asyncio/tasks.py
index a3e7cdf..cf7b540 100644
--- a/asyncio/tasks.py
+++ b/asyncio/tasks.py
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ import concurrent.futures
 import functools
 import inspect
 import linecache
+import os
+import sys
 import traceback
 import weakref
 
@@ -28,7 +30,8 @@ from .log import logger
 # before you define your coroutines.  A downside of using this feature
 # is that tracebacks show entries for the CoroWrapper.__next__ method
 # when _DEBUG is true.
-_DEBUG = False
+_DEBUG = (not sys.flags.ignore_environment
+          and bool(os.environ.get('PYTHONASYNCIODEBUG')))
 
 
 class CoroWrapper: