Effective PyCharm (2021 edition) Transcripts
Chapter: Debugging Python applications
Lecture: Debugging introduction
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Welcome to the debugging chapter, something I really really like about PyCharm is its
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visual debugging tools ability to hit a breakpoint,
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quickly set a breakpoint, hit that breakpoint,
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see all the values of the code variables,
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not just in your watch window,
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but actually injected into your editor as well.
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See And that's really cool over laid mode and it makes it just so much easier
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to see what's going on. You can step through your code,
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you can step through libraries that are libraries you imported or installed through pip.
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And I do believe that this type of debugging is one of the places the other
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editor options badly fall down. People end up doing a lot of print statements or
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they end up in some kind of command line debugger and you're typing through.
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Okay, now show me the line you're on.
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Now, Step into the next line,
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you've got to keep typing and it's just so super inefficient compared to being able to
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visually see the code with the values and the locations over laid on it.
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So really excited to dive into these tools with you,
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we're going to take an application that has a couple of bugs in it,
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it's not entirely obvious why or what's going on.
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We're going to explore it and solve those bugs or fix those bugs with the debugging tools in PyCharm.