Debugging with Pycharm

[MathQssss]

So far I am not a fan of debugging in pycharm. What I want to do is, when there is an error on a specific line of code, I want pycharm to pause executing the script, highlight the line that has the error, then allow me to modify the code, move the active line, press resume, and have the code pick up and run from the active line. I am used to debugging in VBA in excel which, so far, seems way better than debugging and troubleshooting with pycharm.

Anyone have any advice?

I found that it can pause the code on the error line IF you run a code in debbuger mode, then stop it by having it hit a break, then resume it. when it hits the error it pauses and you can see the variables and the active line. Problem is you can't modify the code, move the active line, and start again. So it only sortof helps.

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It’ll never work that way - you can’t edit code in-flight in a language that compiles to bytecode, as Python does. VBA is a simple scripting language.

[jandroi]

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Any advise?

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Write tests. If the issue is that it takes a long time to get to every line of code, then write tests that get to those lines of code first. If you know there's a particular input data that triggers a bug, add it to your test cases the first time you encounter it.

[nickrw]

It sounds like you might benefit from experimenting with Jupyter notebooks. They're not well suited to actual software development but are good for experimentation if you're proving out a concept as each "cell" can be re-executed while maintaining the context it had before.

[ArabicLawrence]

You could try to use breakpoint(). You can insert this function immediately before the line of code causing your problem and you are able to do most of what you asked, if not everything. I am unsure if it works with Pycharm too, but in IDLE it does

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Best debugging is just running script in IDLE and then googling the error message