Summary

  • Python's standard debugger is called PDB.
  • PDB is a standard command-line debugger.
  • The pdb.set_trace() method can be used to stop program execution
    and enter the debugger.
  • Your REPL's prompt will change to (Pdb) when you're in the debugger.
  • You can access PDB's built-in help system by typing help.
  • You can use python -m pdb followed by a script name to run a program under PDB from the start.
  • PDB's where command shows the current call stack.
  • PDB's next command lets execution continue to the next line of code.
  • PDB's continue command lets program execution continue indefinitely, or until you stop it with Ctrl+C.
  • PDB's list command shows you the source code at your current location.
  • PDB's return command resumes execution until the end of the current function.
  • PDB's print command lets you see the values of objects in the debugger.
  • Use the  quit command to exit PDB.

Along the way we found that:

  • The divmod() function calculates the quotient and remainder for a division
    operation at one time.
  • The reversed() function can reverse a sequence.
  • You can pass -m to your Python command to have it run a module as a script.
  • Debugging makes it clear that Python is evaluating everything at run time.

    Notice that we can use print with or without parentheses. Don't be alarmsed – we haven't regressed to Python 2. In this context print is a PDB command rather than a Python 3 function.

 

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