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The Python Apprentice

You're reading from   The Python Apprentice Introduction to the Python Programming Language

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788293181
Length 352 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (2):
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Austin Bingham Austin Bingham
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Robert Smallshire Robert Smallshire
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting started FREE CHAPTER 2. Strings and Collections 3. Modularity 4. Built-in types and the object model 5. Exploring Built-in Collection types 6. Exceptions 7. Comprehensions, iterables, and generators 8. Defining new types with classes 9. Files and Resource Management 10. Unit testing with the Python standard library 11. Debugging with PDB 12. Afterword – Just the Beginning
13. Virtual Environments 14. Packaging and Distribution 15. Installing Third-Party Packages

Summary

  • Python's standard debugger is called PDB.
  • PDB is a standard command-line debugger.
  • The pdb.set_trace() method can be used to stop program execution
    and enter the debugger.
  • Your REPL's prompt will change to (Pdb) when you're in the debugger.
  • You can access PDB's built-in help system by typing help.
  • You can use python -m pdb followed by a script name to run a program under PDB from the start.
  • PDB's where command shows the current call stack.
  • PDB's next command lets execution continue to the next line of code.
  • PDB's continue command lets program execution continue indefinitely, or until you stop it with Ctrl+C.
  • PDB's list command shows you the source code at your current location.
  • PDB's return command resumes execution until the end of the current function.
  • PDB's print command lets you see the values of objects in the debugger...
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