Dead Simple Python

B Python Debugger (pdb) Commands

The Python DeBugger (pdb) tool has quite a few commands you can enter at the (Pdb) prompt to control and monitor the execution of the code. In this appendix, I outline the most important pdb commands in an easy-to-use table.

If you need even more information, you will find all pdb commands exhaustively documented at https://docs.python.org/3/library/pdb.html.

Command(s)	Purpose
h command help command	Shows help for a command. If a command is omitted, this lists all available commands.
q quit	Quits the current pdb session.
Moving around
w where	Prints the stack trace for the current position.
u count up count	Moves the focus higher up the current stack trace, by count levels, or one level by default. ...