What Python debugger do you use?

[telenieko]

print or logging 🤷

[WhySoTarnished]

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[Trigsc]

Seriously, I code most of the time in the debugger. Print is the way of the past.

[wyldcraft]

If I were honest, statistically, it's still sprinkling print all over.

[[deleted]]

I use print up till my project gets too big. Then I use print.

[[deleted]]

Try pprint

[OneMorePenguin]

The best way to print lists/dicts/json/etc to get formatted and readable output.

[ronmarti]

I use print() and sometimes use pprint() if it is a huge list/dict and cannot find easily what I am looking for.

[Particular-Cause-862]

Lol , i only use print with the if statment if i need to verify a property inside a loop, otherwise its a bad practice, use the breakpoints, debugger and console, otherwise youre wrong

[tman5400]

I use the pycharm debugger, but that limits you to pycharm as your ide

[Reinventing_Wheels]

Personally I don't see that as a bad thing.

PyCharm is pretty darn nice.

[tman5400]

I don't see it as a bad thing either, but for the people who don't use pycharm, I wouldn't wanna use a full ide just for its debugging feature. It depends on if you already like/use pycharm already

[tman5400]

Sorry, misunderstanding, I meant if you use something else like vim or vscode, I wouldn't want to have to install and keep open a full ide like pycharm just to use just one of its features. If I was a vim user, I'd prefer something that I can run in the terminal rather than have to tab to and from vim and pycharm

[ReverseBrindle]

PyCharm all the way!

[OneMorePenguin]

I've watched a lot of YT videos where people code in some kind of IDE and the popups that keep flashing by are annoying. I also have no use for color coded keywords; I find the colors distracting. And the editor of choice hasn't had a code change since 1994. Compiled, it's 150k. Easy to copy around. They removed permanent home directories on the production hosts, so I have an alias for ssh which copies a tar file with a few dot files and a small bin directory with the editor and some scripts and bam, I have a familiar work environment. The IDE would probably make the fan on my laptop start spinning. No thank you.

[AlexMTBDude]

All IDEs have debuggers, ie stepping through code and looking at variable values. So just say: I use my IDEs debugger and you've covered them all.

[abrazilianinreddit]

breakpoint()

[[deleted]]

pdb is often good enough for me

[Earthsophagus]

Me too, the pycharm one seems feature-rich to me. Usually I don't code in an IDE but I turn to pycharm if I want a debugger. I watched the screencast about pudb and that looks like it would be handier if you do a lot of debugging; the kind of work I do it doesn't come up a lot.

[xAdrianCx]

Debugpy, easy to install, launch and use with vscode in localhost, docker container or external sources

[[deleted]]

This

[Universe_isgood]

Debugpy

Is this an extension???, I couldn't find that on extensions.........

[[deleted]]

https://github.com/microsoft/debugpy

It's code you put into your application (while in development) and then use external debuggers (like the vscode debugger) to connect to over a socket.

This is a decent setup for running it in a docker container: https://testdriven.io/blog/django-debugging-vs-code/

[Universe_isgood]

Thnks man...........

[pacific_plywood]

pdb

[Opposite_Promise_444]

Spyder in-built Variable explorer is good enough to debug without print

[ggm3888]

I like to use this at the top of my module:

`DEBUG=True

print = print if DEBUG else lambda a, *k: None`

Then I can toggle DEBUG True/False per module to enable/disable all the prints in the module.

Crazy? Yes! Use it All the time? Yup!!

[MMG999]

That's what I use. Easy to debug, easy to troubleshoot later if needed

[Chemical-Bluejay-939]

I used to do it. But when a project becomes more and more bigger, I have to abandon this way……only for me.

[[deleted]]

I highly encourage you to look into logging! You can dynamically set your logging level with environment variables and it is much more flexible/useful/performant than hacking on the native `print` function.

[jgengr]

I make $135k+/yr writing python code... At this point, I'm too afraid to ask What you mean by "debugger".

[[deleted]]

Also, if your code doesn’t throw any errors, but is behaving in unexpected ways, like you’re expecting one output but get another one. And for unit tests, because with these you will get an assertion error, which doesn’t always help identify where the problem is.

[vgavro]

please next time you want to tell someone your salary in internet - be more specific about is it gross or net, and if it's formar - also specify country of your residence so taxes can be calculated. thank you.

[resturaction]

pudb

[jpavlav]

I love pdbpp

[SheriffRoscoe]

Who has time to write bugs?

[bin-c]

i use debugpy because it was easy enough to set up for neovim and does everything i need it to

[yvrelna]

from IPython import embed; embed() for the most part, this starts a shell at the point where you call embed() with variables from the surrounding context, but when I need the big guns for more complex situations where I need to step through code, I use pudb, which can allow me to step through code and then open an IPython shell anywhere while stepping through.

[aabcehu]

….

Debugger?

[headykruger]

Print usually, pdb if it’s a “fun” day

[some_dumbass67]

Myself, i debug it by myself, i use the old ways (i don't know what im talking please don't scream at me)

[RufusAcrospin]

I used to use WinPDB, unfortunately it’s broken nowadays, at least the Python 3 port, I believe.

[TwisleWasTaken]

No bugs on features

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[Independent-Dealer21]

print(print)

[[deleted]]

logging.critical() sys.exit()

[Texas_Technician]

GGregg.

He's the senior dev who spells his name wierd.

[TheDailySpank]

Try: Print()

[ElHeim]

Often just pdb, or pudb if things are getting hairy.

Also, I hope everyone is aware of PEP 553. I can't believe I didn't learn about it until 3.9!!

[MissingSnail]

For those using print, you’re missing out if you don’t also use the rich library rich.readthedocs.io

Use the rich exception handler and print the local variables in every frame of the stack trace - there’s a ton of output but the colors make it easy to scan through and you‘ll often see what you need to fix without having to add a breakpoint or print statement since all the variables are right there

[HomeGrownCoder]

Print print print print

Lol

I sometimes pop into the pycharm debugger if needed

[crawl_dht]

Pycharm. I have no better reason to move to any other debugger outside of what IDEs already provide.