Summary

I hope I was able to convince you of the value in PyCharm's debugging toolset. We looked at a lot of the tools that I find useful in my everyday work . We covered debugging tools and how we can use them in our own workflow.

I didn't discuss any of the common tools that are ubiquitous in any debugger, just the ones that I find make PyCharm special.

One thing I must note is that whenever you debug code, the script will run slower since PyCharm imports some helper functions before actually running your code. If you take a closer look at frames when you debug a program, you will see, at the very bottom, that a function from pydevd.py is called. Thus, if you're looking at execution times when you debug a program using PyCharm, you will find them a lot slower than when you actually run them in PyCharm or the interpreter.

We also looked at PyCharm's new profiler that allows to see a nice colorized call graph as well as giving you the ability to jump to source. If we so wished, we could also...