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Stepping through code

Stepping through code

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Stepping through code

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- All right, once we've created a debugging configuration we are ready to use the debugger to step through our code and examine variables and expressions. So here we are in my chapter three, this is lesson two folder and I've got a copy of the code here so I'll open that and we'll switch to the debugger view. And as we did in the previous example, I will start the program debugging by clicking on this little arrow. And because our launch.json file has the stopOnEntry property set to True, the execution of the program stops right when I begin debugging. And you can see it's paused here on the very first statement which, in this case, is where my code imports the math module. You can also see the debug tool bar that appears up here at the top and the status bar down here turns orange to indicate that we are in debug mode. So before I do anything else, I can just start stepping through the code line by line as the Python interpreter executes the program. So to step one line, I can click…

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