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Here’s how I look at it: pdb is a common way of doing it and you can use the

%debug

in Jupyter. also you can run Jupyter locally and pycharm has integration with it so it shows you all of the local variables. Since a notebook can run cells you can move the problematic lines or functions into a new cell and use prints to understand exactly what’s going on. You can always work in the convenient way for you with ploomber, it has integration with IDEs like Pycharm and VScode so you can enjoy both worlds.

Very helpful. I will try them out. Thanks Ido.

I usually just use

%load_ext autoreload
%autoreload 2

In jupyter lab and then just print the variables in code that I'm interested in.