Debugging code run through subprocess.Popen

I am running a codebase I have inherited from someone else which makes extensive use of user input. For this reason I am running it using `subprocess.Popen`. Here is an example. The script `caller.py` contains the following code:

from subprocess import Popen, PIPE, STDOUT
import sys
user_input = ['John', '555']

communicate_argument = '\n'.join(user_input)
p = Popen([sys.executable, 'example2.py'], stdout=PIPE, stdin=PIPE, stderr=STDOUT, encoding='utf-8')

stdout, stderr = p.communicate(communicate_argument)

print(stdout)

The script example.py contains the following code

name = input('What is your name\n')
age = input('What is your age\n')

print('You are {}, and you are {} years old'.format(name, age))

When I try to debug, pycharm successfully stops at any breakpoints I set in example.py and I can see the variables and their values shown in the debugger.

Unfortunately, this is not the case for the debug console. When I try to inspect any of the variables in example.py I get no value.

I have tried the following:

 - deactivating the "Attach to subprocess automatically while debugging" under Build/Execution/Deployment in the Python Debugger

 - activating "Run with Python Console" in my Run/Debug Configurations

Neither of these solutions has allowed me to inspect the values in the debug console. How can I achieve this?

Thanks in advance for your help.