How to tell Visual Studio Code to follow Django itself source code while debugging Django applications?

Question

I have a Django application and I set Visual Studio Code to debug it using the default launch.json configuration. When I start the server ( manage.py runserver ) and make a request, VSCode stops at the first breakpoint (that is correct), but when I step into a function, VSCode never follows/shows Django source code itself and I would like to see what is happening inside that Django source code.

How could I configure VSCode to follow/show Django (and Django REST) source code while debugging Django applications?

EDIT 2019-05-07 : With VSCode 1.33.1, the option debugStdLib is obsoleted and it has been replaced by justMyCode , that is exactly the opposite. So to debug Django code, justMyCode has to be set to false in launch.json .

Answer 1

Once you have debugging working, all you need to do is add the following setting into your launch.json file for the debug configuration used for Django :

"debugStdLib": true,

This flag tells the Python debugger that you wish to debug standard library code.

Eg:

        {
            "name": "Python: Django",
            "type": "python",
            "request": "launch",
            "debugStdLib": true,