July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
340 pages
7h 43m
English
Content preview from Python Microservices Development
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The debug mode
The Flask application run method has a debug option, which, when used, runs it in the debug mode:
app.run(debug=True)
The debug mode is a special mode, where the built-in debugger takes precedence on any error, and allows you to interact with the app from a browser:
The console in the web-debugger will let you interact with the current app, and inspect variables or execute any Python code that is in the current execution frame.
Flask will even let you configure a third-party debugger. JetBrains's PyCharm (https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm), for example, is a commercial IDE for Python, which offers a powerful visual debugger ...