# Investigating Python

I have been trying to implement private projects on [Pagure](http://pagure.io), while doing that I was struggling with certain design of a function and while doing that I constantly have to switch between shell, editor and at times browser.

I am not saying it is a bad thing or  a good thing but this lead me to find a debugger I thought that might ease my task of finding what is going wrong and where and it actually helped.

I used a python debugger called [pudb](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pudb). This looks like Turbo C but its a lot more useful. This can be used in one of the two ways:

1.  You can directly debug a script  **pudb <your\_script\_name>.py**
2.   You may need to call certain function when you are working with big projects in that case you can just put **import pudb; pu.db**

The most beautiful thing is, it just pops an IDE out of no where, it gives a deep insight about what code i s doing, how it is doing , what stack it is maintaining and what are the various values of variables.

You can always set breakpoints so that you can investigate about the code,  you actually play a detective. This is actually an important  point in developing in an opensource project since there are a lot of functions doing a lot of Hocus Pocus.

This is one of those tools that might even help you to understand the code base better , it really helped me to design the code better.

This is the script that I am trying to debug, the screen looks like this and ‘n’ can let you to go to the next line which can be investigated using the stacks shown.

![Selection_017](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1622182346670/OVr7n8YR6.png)

These are the few windows that you can navigate to and see what is going on.

![Selection_018](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1622182348218/KDLhrVsXz.png)

Not only this but you can jump between different modules and you can set breakpoints.

![Selection_019](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1622182349816/2KMEsqMP-.png)

This might help you get some cool insight about the project.

Happy Hacking !