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A comprehensive way to perform step by step debugging of Python code

I was wondering is there is a good and comprehensive way to debug python code step by step so that I can have a better idea of all the variables involved, their dimensions and values?

What can be done to do step-by-step debugging?

Solution

  • JupyterLab is the current generation of Jupyter interface and has a debugger mode that allows you to step through code. See this post here and a related one here.

    Documentation is here.
    You can try it out without installing anything on your own system by clicking here to launch a temporary Jupyter session running on a remote computer via the MyBinder service, and then open a new notebook file from the launcher. You can step the sections 'Debug code in notebook' and 'Explore the code state' there in the documentation.

    For %%debug, which is from IPython that Jupyter inherits much from, see here and other posts in that thread.