Let's talk about debuggers!

[Daniele Forghieri]

Il 25/10/2017 15:07, Thomas Jollans ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> I just wanted to know what tools everyone used for debugging Python
> applications - scripts / backend / desktop apps / notebooks / whatever.
> Apart from the usual dance with log files and strategically inserted
> print() calls, that is.
>
> Of course we all know and mildly dislike pdb.
>
> Personally, in practice, I'm most likely to need a debugger when
> prototyping a function in a Jupyter notebook. There, ipdb, summoned with
> the %%debug magic incantation, does the trick.
>
> Sometimes, though, I miss having a visual debugger. You know, the kind
> that Visual Basic has had for decades. There's one in Chrome dev tools
> if you ever have the misfortune of writing JavaScript.
>
> What options are there for Python (that work)? What text editors (and
> IDEs) have a decent integrated debugger or debugging plugin? (Is there
> anything for Sublime?) Does anyone use them? (How do YOU debug?)
>
> I vaguely remember WinPDB, but that hasn't seen a release in more than
> seven years...
>
>
I use the PyDev extension to Eclipse IDE, with the standard one at work 
(directly as a plugin to Eclipse) and with LiCplise (a bundle with 
eclipse, pydev and some other plugins) at home.

You can put breakpoint in the code, see all the variables and so forth.

     Daniele Forghieri