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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?
may be python pdb? https://docs.python.org/3/library/pdb.html
This is a bit of a weird article. It spends most of the time talking about logging, which is somewhat useful for debugging but not really. pdb gets a few lines of description, and that is about it. Personally, I can't live without Pycharm when working with Python purely because of how fantastic the debugging experience is. The integration with the interactive IPython shell is simply fantastic, and the live variable v…
My favorite tiny unique feature is that it injects variable values as temp comments in the code as the program runs in debug mode. So you're seeing `foo = get_foo() # "bar"` as your code. Really helps to debug complex algorithms when you can see the values right there in the code.
My only problem is that debugger shell feels very clunky with ideaVim plugin, so if someone at JetBrains reading this that would be a very welcome improvement!
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I second PyCharm, not only from a debugging perspective but as a whole. I don't understand people struggling with generic text editors, development oriented text tools (sublime etc), or even vscode just because they are free when there is a much better tool money can buy (and PyCharm has a free, community version as well).
I write Python with an enhanced text editor every day and don't struggle in the slightest. It's lightening quick as well. I pull out a proper debugger about twice a year.
Concerning reloading, I find `%autoreload` much more reliable than `importlib.reload`. The latter can't handle `from lib import foo` or if a dependency inside an imported package changed. `%autoreload` just does this all automagically.
I've recently started integrating PyCharm's debugger more instead of python native tools and it really has been a life changer! My favorite tiny unique feature is that it injects variable values as temp comments in the code as the program runs in debug mode. So you're seeing `foo = get_foo() # "bar"` as your code. Really helps to debug complex algorithms when you can see the values right there in the code. My only pr…
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?
[1] https://github.com/microsoft/debugpy [2] https://github.com/microsoft/ptvsd