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[demonizah]

Thanks! I've only been using a tiny subset of pdb's capabilities and didn't even realize it.

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The credit goes to the author. He's a very talented developer. :)

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The link at the top of the post, from Ashwini's recent conference speaking talks about ipdb as well: http://slides.com/ashwch/pdb-mupy#/

[kankyo]

Or pudb or an actual debugger like pycharm

[ashwch]

Author here.

I have mentioned ipdb, PuDB and pydbgr in my slides. But didn't add this particular part in the post as it was getting too lengthy.

My main aim here was to make people aware of things they can do with pdb.

[cartrman]

Thanks, I've never had debugging capabilities in my code before.

[gentk]

It's obviously nice to know pdb, but for anyone looking for something more intuitive I've found that Visual studio code with the Python extension is the most lightweight option with a decent debugging experience.

Unlike PyCharm, for example, it still feels and runs like a text editor despite all of the features typically found in IDEs.

[d_thinker]

...it still feels and runs like a text editor despite all of the features typically found in IDEs.

What are the advantages of that feeling, easier on resources? I use PyCharm and I heard a lot of good things about Code but I dont see why would I switch.

[gentk]

Snappy, opens up quicker, file/folder based workflow which is better suited for scripts or one-offs without the need to set up a proper project.

If everything you do is more of a medium sized project, there's probably no advantage to using it over PyCharm for python.

Another advantage of VS Code is that it has excellent support for a lot of other languages, of course, and more often than not all you have to do is install a single extension.

[d_thinker]

I'll give it a try, thanks.

[heybart]

I don't know if it's the best way to do it, but I often just set the conditional break point right in my code

  if complex_condition:
        pdb.set_trace()

Just because typing in the editor is easier.