Basic code debugging in PyCharm | Getting started

This is the Getting Started Series, with Paul Everitt.

In this episode, Paul goes through some basic tools to get you started in debugging your code. PyCharm takes productive debugging very seriously, and this is just an intro. Check our documentation (links below) for more advanced features and workflows.

0:00 - Intro
01:29 - Breakpoints and Debug Session
03:32 - Debug Tool Window
04:24 - Debugger and Console Tabs
06:41 - Step through
08:03 - Wrap up

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[jyemhix]

Thank you! Delightful! Pythonic video with a nautical map in the background!

[larryeisenberg]

Thank you Paul. I might add that it would be interesting if you would post videos on using various frameworks in PyCharm such as Flask, FastAPI, Django etc. with sample web apps

[benjaminandoh]

thanks, Paul, your video was helpful

[wamdn]

Hello, Paul. How do we set a 'go' point or 'execution' point above the current line being executed while debugging? Another way of saying this is, How do we change the current line being executed without rerunning the entire method?

An example: We are stepping through a loop and realized that before entering the loop, we need to initialize a variable to 0. We add the line of code to initialize the variable above the loop then we want to move the execution point from the end of the loop to the init statement above the loop. Step through the init and then restep though the loop.

[ohhs]

Would have liked to know more about to change variables on the fly

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