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Step-by-step debugging with IPython

June 2, 2022 by IT Nursery

From what I have read, there are two ways to debug code in Python: With a traditional debugger such as pdb or ipdb. This supports commands such as c for continue, n for step-over, s for step-into etc.), but you don’t have direct access to an IPython shell which can be extremely useful for object … Read more

How to execute multi-line statements within Python’s own debugger (PDB)

May 30, 2022 by IT Nursery

So I am running a Python script within which I am calling Python’s debugger, PDB by writing: import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace() (iPython’s version of PDB, though for the matter I don’t think it makes a difference; I use it for the colored output only). Now, when I get to the debugger I want to execute a … Read more