How to get app engine debugging?

Question

I have 10+ years in C / C ++, and it seems that Visual Studio messed with me at that time. In Visual Studio, debbuging issimple: I just add a breakpoint to the line of code, and as soon as this code is executed, my breakpoint starts, and at that moment I can view the column, local / member variables, etc.

I am trying to achieve this functionality in App Engine. I assume this is possible?

All the searches that I have done so far have led me to use Pydev in Eclipse. As far as I can tell, I am successfully running my simple hello world program in debug mode.

But does the IDE not even have the ability to set a breakpoint? Something is missing for me.

I googled for a long time and hard about it, but have no luck. Most of the results return to the same old threads that are not directly related to my problem.

Can anyone shed some light on how you get basic debugging setup using Pydev / Eclipse with App Engine?

Alternatively, if there is an easier way to debug App Engine than using Pydev / Eclipse, I would like to hear about it.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

In fact, setting a breakpoint in eclipse is very simple. You have two options: In the gray area next to your line numbers doubleclick or right mouseclick → breakpoint.