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I am trying to learn the basics of programming using python, and I am getting to the point where I have to deal with if statements and for loops. The thing is that I am getting a bit confused as to ...

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I am looking at a body of code and am trying to learn how to tell the order that each line executes. Is there a way to get this from a command in Python? Or is there a way to find out the order that ...

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we are running some python scripts on linux since python are sometimes difficult to understand in case of failure then need to find a good way of debugging for example from bash world its bash -x ...

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I have python script fruits.py when I run it python fruits.py, it generates output. Is there a way like some debug flag in python? or some code to write in script, with which I can see code ...

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I want to observe the data flow in a package that is executed in the shell. Is the freqtrade bot. I want to run it step by step so I can observe the dataflow. This have to be executed in the shell ...

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Let's consider the small script above. def d(n): if n==0: return 0 else: return d(n−1) print d(3) Is there tool that can report each step action as a debugger can do ?

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To clarify my question, for example in some IDEs such as PyCharm one can put a breakpoint in the code, run the python script and when the code reaches that breakpoint, the program stops while the user ...

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I am writing a code for a simple game of tic-tac-toe using lists. I have used multiple functions to display the game board, to check for a winner and to get position input for X and O. The main while ...

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I am newly converting to Python and want to know how to stop or pause in a script for diagnostic purposes. For instance, I want to do something like: If Condition_is_True: Statement else: ...

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I'm doing some assembly-level debugging in GDB. Is there a way to get GDB to show me the current assembly instruction in the same way that it shows the current source line? The default output after ...

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Just a convenience question. I've been a bit spoiled with debuggers in IDEs like Visual Studio and XCode. I find it a bit clumsy to have to type import pdb; pdb.set_trace() to set a breakpoint (I'd ...

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I have been coding a lot in Python of late. And I have been working with data that I haven't worked with before, using formulae never seen before and dealing with huge files. All this made me write a ...

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This is intended to be a general-purpose question to assist new programmers who have a problem with a program, but who do not know how to use a debugger to diagnose the cause of the problem. This ...

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By default, during debugging in IPython, ipdb shows one line above and one line below the current position in code. Is there an easy way to make the area shown a bit bigger? I'd think it would be ...

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I know that a Python script can be debugged from the command line with python -m pdb my_script.py if my_script.py is a script intended to be run with python my_script.py. However, a python module ...