Simpler way to put PDB breakpoints in Python code?

Question

Just a convenience question. I\'ve been a bit spoiled with debuggers in IDEs like Visual Studio and XCode. I find it a bit clumsy to have to type import pdb; pdb.set_t

Answer 1

I haven't tried it yet but they just implemented a new built-in called breakpoint() in Python 3.7 which means you can insert a breakpoint with one statement now:

breakpoint()