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Questions and answers. Is Python support available with Visual Studio for Mac? Not at this time, but you can up vote the request on Developer Community.The Visual Studio for Mac documentation identifies the current types of development that it does support. In the meantime, Visual Studio Code on Windows, Mac, and Linux works well with Python through available extensions. I am trying to remote debug from Visual Studio Code on Mac OS. I would like to know if anyone has managed this or if it only possible from Visual Studio for Windows, or if not, what am I doing wron.
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Debuggers
Name | Platform | Notes |
All | The standard library debugger, part of all Python installations. | |
Unix,Mac OS X | A visual, console-based, full-screen debugger, designed as a more comfortable drop-in replacement for pdb. (also supports IPython) | |
All | A .pdbrc for Python's standard debugger, pdb, which allows you to run arbitrary Python commands on pdb startup. | |
Windows | A python IDE with remote debugging capability. | |
Unix,Linux,Windows | An advanced python debugger, with support for smart breakpoints, multiple threads, namespace modification, embedded debugging, encrypted communication and speed of up to 20 times that of pdb. | |
Unix, Windows,Mac OS X | (Predecessor of rpdb2 and winpdb) rpdb.py improves pdb's usability and adds support for remote debugging, multiple threads debugging, post mortem of unhandled exceptions, and for debugging of embedded scripts. | |
Mac OS X, OS/2, Unix, VMS and Windows | Both a CPYTHON and a JPYTHON(JYTHON) debugging framework which has been integrated inside Jedit as a standard jedit pluggin. | |
Unix, Windows, OS X | An expanded version of pdb loosely based on the gdb command set. The debugger supports thread debugging, signal handling, non-interactive tracing, and much more. | |
Unix | pdb extension with curses module that adds console window with source code. | |
Unix | Graphical front-end for command-line debuggers such as GDB, DBX, WDB, Ladebug, JDB, XDB, the Perl debugger, the bash debugger, GNU Make debugger, or the Python debugger. DDD displays data structures as graphs and plots. A deprecated version of pydb comes with this package. For GNU make debugging, use ddd-test5 | |
Unix,Windows | Debugger for Python programs with a graphical user interface. It uses bdb (part of stdlib) but adds a GUI and has some powerful features like object browser, windows for variables, classes, functions, exceptions, stack, conditional breakpoints, etc. | |
gdb | *nix | See DebuggingWithGdb |
*nix, Windows | Pyclewn allows you to use Vim as a front end to a debugger. Pyclewn currently supports gdb and pdb. | |
trepan2, trepan3k | Unix, Windows, Mac OS X | A rewrite of pydb with closer compliance to gdb . In addition to the features of pydb, the debugger supports syntax coloring (via pygments), has extensive on-line help (in rendered reStructuredText), command completion, a smarter eval, debugger macros written in Python, and more. |
Unix, Windows, Mac OS X | An extension of the pdb module of the standard library. It is meant to be fully compatible with its predecessor, yet it introduces a number of new features to make your debugging experience as nice as possible. | |
Unix, Windows, Mac OS X | A set of debugging decorators which respects Django's settings in case the package is withing a Django project. It allows a user to PDB into a function, do a Line profiler, inspect an object and Disasemble the function. |
IDEs with Debug Capabilities
Mac OS X, Linux, Windows | For teaching/learning programming. Focused on program runtime visualization. Provides stepping both in statements and expressions, no-hassle variables view, separate mode for explaining references etc. |
Mac OS X, Linux, Windows | Allows debugging multiple threads in Jython and Python (It is featured as a 'Python IDE' plugin for Eclipse). |
Mac OS X, Linux, Windows | An IDE that can debug multiple threads and multiple processes, including code launched from the IDE or code launched externally, running under CPython and Stackless Python. The GUI includes a Debug Probe, which is a Python shell running in the context of the paused debug process. The IDE's debugger also features value watching (by symbolic path, object reference, or a combination), conditional breakpoints, move program counter, debugging of tests running in the integrated unit testing tool, special support for Django, and How-Tos for debugging code running under Flask, web3py, Django, Google App Engine, wxPython, PyQt, Tkinter, Blender, Maya, NUKE, and many other packages. |
Mac OS X, Linux, Windows | |
Mac OS X, Linux, Windows | PyCharm's integrated debugger works for Python and Jython, supports debugging of multiple threads, remote debugging, allows debugging Django, Google App Engine applications and unit tests. The debugger features various breakpoints, stepping modes, frames view, watches, evaluate expression tool and a debug console. Conditional and Exception breakpoint types are available for more precise control. Debug console allows executing any Python statements in the context of the process being debugged while stopped at a breakpoint. |
Windows | |
Linux, Windows | An IDE tool used to edit, debug Python scripts, publish encrypted scripts, build a standalone executable file, and make installation in various forms(.msi, .tar.gz, .rpm, .zip, .tar.bz2). It includes an editor simulating Emacs python-mode, a GUI debugger simulating GDB, a project view used to manage scripts, modules, extensions, packages and platform specific data files. |
Windows | Supports Python (any implementation with sufficient sys.settrace capabilities) and IronPython .NET debugging. Includes MPI cluster debugging, breakpoints, conditional breakpoints, locals, watch, and immediate windows, step into/out/over, break on exception, and break on unhandled exception. |
Mac OS X, Linux, Windows | Visual Studio Code is a source code editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux and MacOS. It includes support for debugging, embedded Git control, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, and code refactoring. It is free and open-source, although the official download is under a proprietary license. Supports Python debugging via extensions. |
Mac OS X, Linux, Windows | A simple Python editor for beginner programmers, providing a simple interface depending on the project type. It includes visual debugging as first citizen. |
Special-purpose tools
GoogleAppEngine + Firefox | 'FirePython is a python logger console integrated into Firebug (similar to FirePHP)'. See http://appengine-cookbook.appspot.com/recipe/firepython-logger-console-inside-firebug/ |
Mac OS X, Linux | Remote process inspector (using an active component, using a thread or a plain simple signal handler). |
Remote process inspector. Uses GDB to inject code. | |
Remote process inspector/profiler for Python 2/3. Uses GDB to inject code. | |
Any | Trace hook logger which outputs each thread in its own 'swimlane' to make multithreaded analysis easier. Can also time calls (naively) and watch variables. |
Remote process inspector. Uses GDB to inject code. | |
Mac OS X, Linux | Library and a set of tools for injecting code into running Python programs to monitor, analyze, introspect, and alter running Python programs easily. Uses GDB to inject code. |
Remote process inspector. Uses GDB to inject code. | |
Remote process inspector. Uses GDB to inject code. Uses rpyc for communication. | |
Remote process inspector (using an active component, a thread). | |
A flexible code tracing toolkit. Can print out code and variables, and filter the events. | |
Sweet and creamy print debugging -- inspect variables, expressions, and code execution with a single, simple function call. | |
Graphical Python debugger which lets you easily view the values of all evaluated expressions | |
Provides two utilities: show: a lightweight function that prints name and value of your variable(s) to the console, and peep: featured, interactive interface for data inspection. | |
Never use print for debugging again. PySnooper is a poor man's debugger. If you can't use a real debugger for some reason or other, and you're resorting to adding print statements to your code, this is for you. Add just one decorator line to your functions, and you get a complete log of all the lines that ran in the function and all the variables that were changed. |
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I'm using an iMac with High Sierra. I used Anaconda to install both python 2.7.15 and python 3.6.5. I created virtual environments for both of these. I'm trying to learn python and I'm using Visual Studio Code. I've run scripts fine that were developed for python 3 but the code I'm currently working with was developed for python 2. I can not get VScode to run using a python 2 interpreter, it seems to use python 3 no matter what I do. I could rewrite the script to make it compatible with python 3 but I'd rather not do that. I've tried running VScode from the python 2 virtual environment but that seems to have no effect. I edited the settings in VScode and changed the variable python.pythonPath to point to python 2 but that doesn't work. I used the command pallet to change the python interpreter but that doesn't work either. How do I force VScode to run python 2.
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Start VScode and open your python script. Using either the command palette or the status bar, select the python interpreter you wish to use. Both options present a list of available interpreters. Now you may run your code by right-clicking in the edit window and selecting 'Run python file in terminal'. A terminal window opens below the edit window and your code executes there. Note: You must execute your code using the right-click technique described above. Other methods, such as using the command palette with 'run: code', will not work
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