Debug option not available/does nothing using Python plugin in IDEA 2017.1

Please provide the screenshot of the run/debug configuration.

Can't reproduce. Could you please specify the exact IntelliJ IDEA and Python plug-in versions that you have?

Can you try it with some other Python interpreter?

Same issue with python3 (non homebrew). Python plugin version: Version: 2017.1.171.4694.26

I don't even have an option to show the debug console at the bottom left of IDEA

Same version here. Debug console tool window option will appear only after debug session is started.

Any errors in idea.log (https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/articles/207241085)?

Can you reproduce it in a new project?

New projects have the same error. The only thing I see relevant to python in the log is a stack trace about Invalid Root

2017-06-30 13:17:45,315 [ 88874] ERROR - j.openapi.roots.impl.RootIndex - IntelliJ IDEA 2017.1.4 Build #IU-171.4694.23 
2017-06-30 13:17:45,315 [ 88874] ERROR - j.openapi.roots.impl.RootIndex - JDK: 1.8.0_112-release 
2017-06-30 13:17:45,315 [ 88874] ERROR - j.openapi.roots.impl.RootIndex - VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 
2017-06-30 13:17:45,315 [ 88874] ERROR - j.openapi.roots.impl.RootIndex - Vendor: JetBrains s.r.o 
2017-06-30 13:17:45,315 [ 88874] ERROR - j.openapi.roots.impl.RootIndex - OS: Mac OS X 
2017-06-30 13:17:45,315 [ 88874] ERROR - j.openapi.roots.impl.RootIndex - Last Action: 
2017-06-30 13:17:45,315 [ 88874] ERROR - j.openapi.roots.impl.RootIndex - Invalid root file:///Users/josh/Library/Application Support/IntelliJIdea2017.1/python/helpers/typeshed/stdlib/2and3 in musicday-mvp -> < Python 3.6.1 (/usr/local/bin/python3) > 
java.lang.Throwable
 at com.intellij.openapi.diagnostic.Logger.error(Logger.java:132)
 at com.intellij.openapi.roots.impl.RootIndex.a(RootIndex.java:195)
 at com.intellij.openapi.roots.impl.RootIndex.a(RootIndex.java:143)
 at com.intellij.openapi.roots.impl.RootIndex.<init>(RootIndex.java:68)
 at com.intellij.openapi.roots.impl.DirectoryIndexImpl.c(DirectoryIndexImpl.java:111)
 at com.intellij.openapi.roots.impl.DirectoryIndexImpl.getInfoForFile(DirectoryIndexImpl.java:146)
 at com.intellij.openapi.roots.impl.FileIndexBase.getInfoForFileOrDirectory(FileIndexBase.java:57)
 at com.intellij.openapi.roots.impl.ProjectFileIndexImpl.isUnderIgnored(ProjectFileIndexImpl.java:96)
 at com.intellij.openapi.roots.impl.ProjectFileIndexFacade.isUnderIgnored(ProjectFileIndexFacade.java:74)
 at com.intellij.psi.impl.file.impl.FileManagerImpl.findDirectoryImpl(FileManagerImpl.java:445)
 at com.intellij.psi.impl.file.impl.FileManagerImpl.findDirectory(FileManagerImpl.java:433)
 at com.intellij.psi.impl.file.impl.FileManagerImpl.removeInvalidFilesAndDirs(FileManagerImpl.java:528)
 at com.intellij.psi.impl.file.impl.PsiVFSListener$MyModuleRootListener$2.run(PsiVFSListener.java:673)
 at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.ApplicationImpl.runWriteAction(ApplicationImpl.java:1023)
 at com.intellij.psi.impl.file.impl.PsiVFSListener$MyModuleRootListener.rootsChanged(PsiVFSListener.java:665)
 at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor65.invoke(Unknown Source)
 at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
 at com.intellij.util.messages.impl.MessageBusConnectionImpl.deliverMessage(MessageBusConnectionImpl.java:117)
 at com.intellij.util.messages.impl.MessageBusImpl.doPumpMessages(MessageBusImpl.java:437)
 at com.intellij.util.messages.impl.MessageBusImpl.pumpWaitingBuses(MessageBusImpl.java:398)
 at com.intellij.util.messages.impl.MessageBusImpl.pumpMessages(MessageBusImpl.java:387)
 at com.intellij.util.messages.impl.MessageBusImpl.pumpMessages(MessageBusImpl.java:380)
 at com.intellij.util.messages.impl.MessageBusImpl.sendMessage(MessageBusImpl.java:373)
 at com.intellij.util.messages.impl.MessageBusImpl.access$200(MessageBusImpl.java:44)
 at com.intellij.util.messages.impl.MessageBusImpl$2.invoke(MessageBusImpl.java:230)
 at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy116.rootsChanged(Unknown Source)
 at com.intellij.openapi.roots.impl.ProjectRootManagerComponent.fireRootsChangedEvent(ProjectRootManagerComponent.java:205)
 at com.intellij.openapi.roots.impl.ProjectRootManagerImpl.b(ProjectRootManagerImpl.java:410)
 at com.intellij.openapi.roots.impl.ProjectRootManagerImpl.access$100(ProjectRootManagerImpl.java:54)
 at com.intellij.openapi.roots.impl.ProjectRootManagerImpl$BatchSession.a(ProjectRootManagerImpl.java:105)
 at com.intellij.openapi.roots.impl.ProjectRootManagerImpl$BatchSession.rootsChanged(ProjectRootManagerImpl.java:118)
 at com.intellij.openapi.roots.impl.ProjectRootManagerImpl.makeRootsChange(ProjectRootManagerImpl.java:350)
 at org.jetbrains.kotlin.idea.core.script.KotlinScriptConfigurationManager$notifyRootsChanged$rootsChangesRunnable$1$1.invoke(KotlinScriptConfigurationManager.kt:102)
 at org.jetbrains.kotlin.idea.core.script.KotlinScriptConfigurationManager$notifyRootsChanged$rootsChangesRunnable$1$1.invoke(KotlinScriptConfigurationManager.kt:51)
 at org.jetbrains.kotlin.idea.util.application.ApplicationUtilsKt$sam$Computable$171b25db.compute(ApplicationUtils.kt)
 at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.ApplicationImpl.runWriteAction(ApplicationImpl.java:1035)
 at org.jetbrains.kotlin.idea.util.application.ApplicationUtilsKt.runWriteAction(ApplicationUtils.kt:28)
 at org.jetbrains.kotlin.idea.core.script.KotlinScriptConfigurationManager$notifyRootsChanged$rootsChangesRunnable$1.invoke(KotlinScriptConfigurationManager.kt:99)
 at org.jetbrains.kotlin.idea.core.script.KotlinScriptConfigurationManager$notifyRootsChanged$rootsChangesRunnable$1.invoke(KotlinScriptConfigurationManager.kt:51)
 at org.jetbrains.kotlin.idea.core.script.KotlinScriptConfigurationManagerKt$sam$Runnable$5974abf6.run(KotlinScriptConfigurationManager.kt)
 at com.intellij.openapi.application.TransactionGuardImpl$2.run(TransactionGuardImpl.java:303)
 at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.LaterInvocator$FlushQueue.a(LaterInvocator.java:410)
 at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.LaterInvocator$FlushQueue.run(LaterInvocator.java:399)
 at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:311)
 at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:762)
 at java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(EventQueue.java:98)
 at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:715)
 at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:709)
 at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
 at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:80)
 at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:732)
 at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.k(IdeEventQueue.java:827)
 at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue._dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:655)
 at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:365)
 at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:201)
 at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:116)
 at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:105)
 at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:101)
 at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:93)
 at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:82)

When I do an `ls` on the root, it exists. I know there was a bug I reported a couple years ago in PyCharm where it had problems with directories that had spaces in the name. 

josh$ ls "/Users/josh/Library/Application Support/IntelliJIdea2017.1/python/helpers/typeshed/third_party/2and3"
Crypto backports_abc.pyi characteristic mypy_extensions.pyi requests
atomicwrites boto jinja2 pymysql singledispatch.pyi
backports certifi.pyi markupsafe pytz ujson.pyi

Not sure it's related to the problem.

Bug report with the logs directory zipped is welcome at https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/PY.

Thanks for trying to work it out with me. I'll post a bug. Does it go in the PyCharm tracker since it's the plugin for IDEA?

Since it's specific to Python, PyCharm tracker would the proper project.