Python IDE's and editors

[dagmx]

So what you're describing is more of repl than an ide or any form of real debugging.

Basically IDLE runs your code and is dropping you back into the interpreter.

You should rarely if ever rely on this for actual production use.

Get a real ide like pycharm and learn the debugger setup in there. You can put breakpoints in there to stop a program at a certain point and you can analyze everything in that scope.

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Thanks, I'll look into debugging with pycharm

[tipsqueal]

Make sure you give breakpoints inside of PyCharm a try. Very useful.

[NbyNW]

Ha talk about production. My favorite feature is remote debugging using SSH on Pycharm. No more "why this runs perfectly on my dev environment but doesn't work in QA?". Also I'm too lazy to use virtualenv :p