Debugging from the Python Console

Hello Rick,

Right now there is no possibility to run the console in debug mode. Running

your script in the debugger, putting a breakpoint somewhere and then showing

the command line console is the only possibility at the moment.

I'm working on a tool that's invoked primarily from the command line

and scripts. The easiest way for me to interact with it is through the

console. So in PyCharm, this is fairly easy to do, just Tools->Run

Python Console... Then I can work with my code directly in there as

per normal.

The problem is that PyCharm doesn't really seem to get me anything

over running from the regular Python console! I really want to be able

to set a breakpoint in my code, so I could do something like this:

D:\Tools\Python27\pythonw.exe -u C:\Program Files

(x86)\JetBrains\PyCharm 1.2.1\helpers\pydev\console\pydevconsole.py

52626 52627

import sys; print('Python %s on %s' % (sys.version, sys.platform))

sys.path.extend(['C:
Program Files (x86)
JetBrains
PyCharm

1.2.1
helpers', 'D:
Code
Python
PyHello'])

Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Nov 27 2010, 17:19:03) [MSC v.1500 64 bit

(AMD64)] on win32

>>>> from fibo import Fibo

>>>> fib = Fibo(boundary=10)

>>>> fib.show()

1

1

2

3

5

8

Pretty straightforward. But I'd like to set a breakpoint in the

__init__ or show() functions and that doesn't work. Is there a way to

start the console in debug mode?

I found /message/5286007, but it's not quite what I want to do: that

involves starting a debug session first, then opening the shell

afterwards. I want to be able to debug from right within the console.

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Dmitry Jemerov

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JetBrains, Inc.

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Right now there is no possibility to run the console in debug mode. Running

your script in the debugger, putting a breakpoint somewhere and then showing

the command line console is the only possibility at the moment.

Oh. Well, that'd be useful, so consider this a vote for that :-)

What I've done is to create a go.py script that contains the stuff I'd normally do in the console and then I run that. But it's OK, but not as flexible because of course I can't just try different things as I go along.

Thanks for the quick response.

Hi Rick,

There is already an issue for that http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issue/PY-3057 so you can vote ;-)