Python Debugging (PyCharm + VS Code)

Step by step through your program.

Debugging is an essential and unavoidable part of programming. Everyone writes bugs, and we'd like to get rid of them. Print statements are fine to a certain point, but live debugging is usually a better option. With live debugging, you can step through your program one statement at a time, and set breakpoints at interesting places to stop, view, and interact with the state of the program before it proceeds. This is a very beginner-friendly tutorial on how to use PyCharm and VS Code for live debugging in Python.

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:28 Grocery app
3:56 Debugging in PyCharm
12:23 Conditional breakpoints
16:09 Debugging in VS Code
21:49 A useful tip... TESTING
23:38 Outro

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I am always impressed how I still learn things from your videos, even on topics I'm familiar with already (TIL about conditional breakpoints).

[olo]

Finally a video on debugging for Python. Haven't even watched it yet but I've got big hopes that this will be the video I'll send to every new intern & junior in our team at work 😀

[adamfarquhar]

I've found setting up the debugging in VS Code to be surprising. Now I know it's not just me! Thanks for the clear explanations and work-arounds for the quirks in the PyCharm and VS Code debugger settings.

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[josephpierce]

Wanted to say thanks. I didn't know any of this, and it seems super useful. Bonus tip for anyone who has to run their code from the command line, you can add the call breakpoint() in your source file and then use the debugger from the terminal

[powrusr]

Since you recommend testing, I'd love to see more content on testing the hard stuff like API's, files, databases with pytest. Testing static code is easy the IO stuff is more complicated. Thanks for the nuggets! 💪

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your videos are actually so helpful in my Python coding journey

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13:47 really nice to see him laugh at something goofy like this 😄 #mcoding

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Using the debugger is something that I've procrastinated learning since I began programming in university 10 years ago. Nice to see such a comprehensive video about that topic #mcoding

[Schlynn]

Really been enjoying your videos alot more recently as I've been diving deeping into Python. Thank you for the upload.

[AFurreh]

Genuinely had no idea about conditional breakpoints. Big time saver! #mcoding thank you much for going in to this topic!

[seb]

Wow super helpful video! I've used the debugger for a while but seeing your methodology to it was insightful.

I would have changed the data in the file rather than the function, but you don't always have that luxury.

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Genuinely, I applied some new things I learned from this video within half an hour. Thank you for all you do. #mcoding

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Again and again you manage to talk about things that I dealt with but never knew how they should be applied. Thanks for your content!
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Great video ! Love the last advice about unit testing! I've personally had to debug asyncio app and it's really hard!

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[goost]

More basic than the usual, but still a nice refresher :)

[justingerber]

Awesome video as usual! I never knew about conditional break points, seems super useful, I’ll have to try them out! Also I’ve been learning and implementing testing lately. It’s hard to write good tests, but once tests are written it is such a joy to refactor and improve code knowing you have your tests as a sort of safety net. Thanks for the video #mcoding!