New in version 0.7.0
The "manhole" allows server administrators to access a Python shell on a running bridge. This is a very powerful mechanism for administration and debugging.
To enable it, update the config and restart the bridge: set manhole -> enabled to true and manhole -> whitelist to the list of system UIDs you want to allow connecting. After that, send open-manhole <uid> to the bridge bot on Matrix as a bridge admin user to open the manhole for the given UID.
When the manhole is open, you can open a connection with nc -NU /var/tmp/mautrix-telegram.manhole in your normal shell. Optionally, install rlwrap and use rlwrap nc instead of nc to get a nicer prompt. To use rlwrap with Docker, run it on the host: rlwrap docker exec -i nc -NU /var/tmp/mautrix-telegram.manhole. Alternatively, you can mount the socket to the host and connect with the hosts netcat and rlwrap.
To close the connection, use ctrl+C or exit(). To close the manhole, use the close-manhole management command or use bridge.manhole.close() inside the manhole.
Inside the manhole, bridge refers to the main class instance. Refer to the source code to see how everything works. In Python versions 3.7 and up, the manhole supports top-level await expressions.