Debugger times out at “Collecting data…”

Question

I am debugging a Python (3.5) program with PyCharm (PyCharm Community Edition 2016.2.2 ; Build #PC-162.1812.1, built on August 16, 2016 ; JRE: 1.8.0_76-releas

Answer 1

I also had this issue when I was working on code using sympy and the Python module 'Lea' aiming to calculate probability distributions.

The action I took that resolved the timeout issue was to change the 'Variables Loading Policy' in the debug setting from the default 'Asynchronously' to 'Synchronously'.