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The ultimate guide to debugging in Python

Even if you write clear and readable code, even if you cover your code with tests, even if you are very experienced developer, weird bugs will inevitably appear and you will need to debug them in some way. Lots of people resort to just using bunch of print statements to see what's happening in their code. This approach is far from ideal and there are much better ways to find out what's wrong with your code, some of which we will explore in this article. Logging is a Must If you write application without some sort of logging setup you will eventually come to regret it. Not having any logs from your application can make it very difficult to troubleshoot any bugs. Luckily - in Python - setting up basic logger is very simple: import logging logging.basicConfig(     filename='application.log',     level=logging.WARNING,     format= '[%(asctime)s] {%(pathname)s:%(lineno)d} %(levelname)s - %(message)s',     datefmt='%H:%M:%S' ) logging.error("Some serious