Hi, I just wanted to know what tools everyone used for debugging Python applications - scripts / backend / desktop apps / notebooks / whatever. Apart from the usual dance with log files and strategically inserted print() calls, that is.
Of course we all know and mildly dislike pdb. Personally, in practice, I'm most likely to need a debugger when prototyping a function in a Jupyter notebook. There, ipdb, summoned with the %%debug magic incantation, does the trick. Sometimes, though, I miss having a visual debugger. You know, the kind that Visual Basic has had for decades. There's one in Chrome dev tools if you ever have the misfortune of writing JavaScript. What options are there for Python (that work)? What text editors (and IDEs) have a decent integrated debugger or debugging plugin? (Is there anything for Sublime?) Does anyone use them? (How do YOU debug?) I vaguely remember WinPDB, but that hasn't seen a release in more than seven years... -- Thomas Jollans -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
