Pycharm debugging from saved state

Question

Is there a way to debug a code in parts? Meaning, I wish to debug the code until a certain point, save the variables state and continue to debug from that point on. Thanks

Answer 1

With its debug function, Pycharm offers a fantastic opportunity to see the properties of certain variables if the breakpoint has been set accordingly.

Apart from that, Python itself offers an amazing way to serialize and de-serialize object structures with its built-in feature pickle (Pickle documentation).

The pickle.dump(VARIABLE) command can be used to dump variables at a certain state into a file or to be printed.

Sometimes I'm using pickle f.e. to dump a response variable into a file for later being used.

• Example Code

import pickle
import requests


r = requests.get('https://www.strava.com/api/v3/athlete')
#
# with open('assets/requests_test.pickle', 'wb') as write:
#     pickle.dump(r.json(), write)

With that you're able to open this file manually or load it with pickle.load (VARIABLE) later in your code to do something useful with it.