How to start server in debug mode - Pycharm

Question

I want to debug my code and put breakpoints. However I am not able to start my server in debug mode.

I have a setup.sh file. It has multiple export statements and last statement is python manage.py runserver. In manage.py I added DEBUG = True as shown below :

if __name__ == "__main__":
 DEBUG = True

The application did not stop on debug points i had put.

Answer 1

Alternatively, you may use the python "pdb" debugger. Just import pdb and call pdb.set_trace() below the line which might cause error. It will stop at the that point of code during execution and you can debug and see whatever you want to!