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Displaying all results of execution

When I execute a python program, the results starts to appear quickly and I can't read it all. It just flushes over my screen.
When the execution ends, I can no longer see the first displays, because the terminal display space is limited.

How save the output, so I can read all of it?

Solution

  • You have a few options here.

    • Add a breakpoint and learn how to use the debugger. Once you add this command (import pdb;pdb.set_trace() # this will take some learning so look up what pdb is online. actually, i prefer 'ipdb' instead.), the code will stop at that specific point when you execute it.
    • Save it to a file (python file.py > filename.txt) and then read it afterwards. Bonus: Before you ask yourself, where are my outputs? https://askubuntu.com/questions/625224/how-to-redirect-stderr-to-a-file
    • (More advanced) Your code is spitting out too much garbage output. You can remove some of the code or use python logging filters.