如何在spyder中设置条件断点？

Question

it was supposed to be incredibly simple to find answer in open internet but apparently not. How do you set conditional breakpoints in spyder (anaconda)?

for example here is a fraction of the code:

   if elem.name == "p":
      for b_elem in elem.select('b'):
         if not re_date.match(b_elem.text):
            speaker = b_elem.text.strip(':')

I want to set up a conditional breakpoint when speaker equals to 'Foreign National Offenders (Exclusion from the UK) Bill'

i tried to set the red dot next to the speaker, right click and edit conditional breakpoint like this: speaker == 'Foreign National Offenders (Exclusion from the UK) Bill'

but the code does not stop at this breakpoint. I wonder why. Does anyone know how to set it up properly?

thank you

Answer 1

The debugger stops at the row where you put the breakpoint before evaluating the row. So, to have the debug stop based on the value of variable "speaker", you should insert the conditional breakpoint on a row below the one where "speaker" is defined.