Debug Python Scripts Like a Pro

The bad, the lovely, and the smart ways of debugging your Python code.

Thuwarakesh Murallie
Towards Data Science
9 min readDec 14, 2021

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Python has a variety of ways for debugging. Most beginners don’t understand the different options available to them. Here we discuss several techniques to help use the best way to find out issues and fix them in their code.
Tools and techniques for debugging Python scripts — Photo by Anete Lusina from Pexels

It took me some time to grasp the idea of debugging.

I’m sure that’s common with most code newbies. To me, as a self-taught Python programmer, locating issues and fixing them in the quickest possible way was challenging.

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I write about data science and consult at Stax, where I help clients unlock insights from data to drive business growth. https://www.the-analytics.club