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Debugging code in the Python interpreter

I like testing functions in the Python interpreter. Is it possible to debug a function in the Python interpreter when I want to see more than a return value and a side effect?

If so, could you show basic debugger operations (launching the function with arguments, setting breakpoint, next step, step into, watching variable)? If not, how would you debug a function another way?

The point is, I want to debug only a particular function which will be supplied with arguments. I don't want to debug whole module code.

thank you for advice

Solution

  • If you want to debug specific function you can using this - 

    >>> import pdb
>>> import yourmodule
>>> pdb.run('yourmodule.foo()')

    over the command line. pdb.set_trace() should be added in your function to break there.

    More info on pdb can be seen here - http://docs.python.org/library/pdb.html