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When debugging compiled code, I often attach a debugger to the process after it’s started to introspect it. I’ve often wanted to do something similar in Python; does anyone know of a tool that might do something like this?

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Sibling comment suggests Pyrasite for this: https://github.com/lmacken/pyrasite

may be python pdb?

https://docs.python.org/3/library/pdb.html

Can I somehow give that a PID so it can inject a set_trace or whatever in the current context?

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