Why is my Pycharm debug console not loading? - debugging

I recently installed Pycharm on a fresh PC. Unfortunately something seems to be off with the installation. When I try to enter the debug console this isn't loading. E.g. for a very simple test case
def test_stable():
1 == 1
2 == 2 # breakpoint in this line
when I add a breakpoint in the last line, it is stopping the execution correctly, but I can't enter the console (i.e. the little wheels keep spinning):
What is wrong with my installation here? Is this a known issue?
Edit:
When clicking the "Show Python Prompt" button a console opens, but the console is not working, there is no output from it:
As I said above I believe this is connected to the strange behavior in the Debug Console tab.
Edit 2:
As recommended by #bad_coder I changed the test to
class Test:
def test_trivial(self):
test = 5
assert 1 == 1 # breakpoint on this line
I still can't use the debug console. I also just started up my old system and can now confirm that there when clicking on console I am directly getting to the console and not the situation of my first image (with the animated spinning wheels).

The button you're looking for is the Python-with-a-prompt button, which switches between the console and test progress.

If someone stumbles across the same issue, I believe the problem here was basically just that the Pycharm version was rather old. After downloading the current version everything works fine.

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Spyder debugger freezes on second restart of code

My task is to repeatedly rerun a code from beginning. As I do not want to run the code to the end I set a breakpoint() command. However, Spyder freezes when the code is the second time called from debug mode. For demonstration a simple program is sufficient:
print('Hello World!')
breakpoint()
After launching Spyder I start the small program by F5. Everything works as expected and I jumped into the debug mode. Now I press again F5 and the code restarts correctly from the debug mode. After again pressing F5 the code is not restarted and instead the IDE freezes. It is not possible by any means to rerun the code again from debug mode. Interrupting the kernel by pressing the red button (see screenshot below) does not help. Trying to leave the debug mode by !q does not leave the debug mode. The only possibility to rerun the code is quite cumbersome, i.e. I have to restart the kernel (Ctrl+.) that takes a while. How to debug code under these circumstances?
Is this a bug of the IDE or expected behavior? How can I restart the code by a simple key press as often as possible from debug mode?
This is a screenshot of the Spyder console with comments in red added.
I use a recent version a WinPython with latest Spyder 5.4.0, Python 3.10.4 64-bit, Qt 5.15.2, PyQt5 5.15.6, Windows 10Pro Version 21H2. The problem also appears with Spyder 5.3.3 A similar problem (or maybe the same) appears with a different Python version.
After many trials, I noticed that there is something strange with IPython console. I noticed that when it hangs after running a code, if I delete all user variables, it worked fine.
Then I tryed to delete all variables before execution, and it work fine.
Therefore I discovered that a solution that worked for me is to go to preferences -> Run -> and untick the option 'Remove all variables before execution'
It is quite annoying because I have to do it manually every time before running, but in this way the spyder does not appear to hang anymore! I hope that the Spyder developers will solve it soon.
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I automatically solved by typing at the beginning of any script these lines, inspired from the question Code to clear console and variables in Spyder :
try:
from IPython import get_ipython
get_ipython().magic('clear')
get_ipython().magic('reset -f')
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.close('all')
except:
pass
similar to Matlab in which you normally start your code with
clc
close all
clear all

How could the C++ Builder XE debugger be affecting my code?

Using C++ builder XE
I'm using a TStatusBar on a form with 2 panels. The first panel is just text. The second is set to OwnerDraw and should indicate a red or green panel showing if a comport is connected or not. This is updated from a TTimer on a form with an interval of 500ms.
What seems to happen is that when I run the program from within the IDE (with the debugger), it works OK, but when I run it from the .exe file in the destination folder, of from within the IDE without the debugger, it doesn't update the status bar.
This is really annoying, because as soon as I run it under the debugger to debug it, it doesn't go wrong !
It seems that the OnDrawPanel event handler is not getting called when I'm not using the debugger.
Anyone got any ideas why, or a way round this ?

when run projects in vs they just show up and disappear instantly

OMG!
when run projects in vs they just show up and disappear instantly
all of project's are c# console app and i ran them before and that was okay
i've try to reset all setting and that didnt work
If you want your console app to whait for input you can put that at the end of your main method
Console.ReadLine();
Then you need to hit enter to exit the console app.
Another possibility while debugging would be to add a breakpoint at the end of your main method.
It was set to something wrong.
Project start up was set to single project, not current project.

Interactive pyDev console at breakpoint

I'm using Aptana Studio with Pydev 1.5.3 to debug my Django applications. I use PyDev's remote debugger and some code in manage.py and for most of the time this setup is working successfully- I can set breakpoints, inspect variables and step/continue through my code.
However, I'd like to execute arbitrary code at the breakpoint- the thing I really miss after switching from pdb to Eclipse debugging. There is an interactive console available in debug perspective but it is inactive for me.
So my question- is it possible to set up an interactive console in PyDev with remote debugger which could "inject" code at breakpoint?
strange, i am using pydev 1.5.6 for remote debugging and I can use the interactive console - i type the cmmand, hit enter, after a while get results back; check your firewall is not blocking anything (if you are sure, the interactive console works in local mode). there is even settings in pydev source code to set how much of stdout should be returned back to client (in chars), it should work
After some digging I discovered that I can use Expressions view to access variables properties and view results of class methods, but that still isn't a complete console at breakpoint though.
With PyDev 1.5.5 it should be possible:
In "Variables" view, you can right-click on a name, then select "change value".
The console is working as well, albeit a bit tricky.
It is only for inspection and in a very strange way: you have to input the text in the "Debug server" console, and you will get the output in the "filename" console.
Note also that you need to press enter twice, leaving an empty line.
While the "empty line" trick is documented, the issue about two different console for input and output is not, and I think it may be a bug.
On my development stack running Apache + mod_wsgi entering commands into the console had their output routed to the site's error logs. To resolve this you have set the stdoutToServer=True and sterrToServer=True to route capture all output to the PyDev remote debugger:
from pydevsrc import pydevd;pydevd.settrace('192.168.2.8', stdoutToServer=True, stderrToServer=True) #clone and put on python path: https://github.com/tenXer/PyDevSrc

Internet Explorer 8 64bit and Selenium Not working

I am trying to get selenium tests to run. Yet every time I try to run a tests that should run IE I get a error on line 863 of htmlutils.js It says that I should disable my popup blocker. The thing is I went to IE tools-> turn of popup block.
So it is disabled and I get this error.
Is there something else I need to disable. I actually don't even know what version of Internet explorer it is running since I am using Windows 7 Pro 64bit version. So when I do use IE I use 64bit version but I am under the understanding if the site or something like that does not support 64bit it goes to 32bit.
So not sure what I need to do it to make it work.
This is the lines where it does
function openSeparateApplicationWindow(url, suppressMozillaWarning) {
// resize the Selenium window itself
window.resizeTo(1200, 500);
window.moveTo(window.screenX, 0);
var appWindow = window.open(url + '?start=true', 'selenium_main_app_window');
if (appWindow == null) {
var errorMessage = "Couldn't open app window; is the pop-up blocker enabled?"
LOG.error(errorMessage);
throw new Error("Couldn't open app window; is the pop-up blocker enabled?");
}
Where is this log.error message stored? Maybe I can post that too.
I had a similar problem on Vista and IE8
I would get the same error message
Couldn't open app window; is the pop-up blocker enabled?"
Running my remote control as Admin wasn't an option for me, and also a poor idea from a security perspective.
So in the end I manage to solved this by changeing browser from "*ietha" to "*iexploreproxy"
grid_configuration.yml
hub:
port: 4444
...
- name: "Internet Explorer 8 on Vista"
browser: "*iexploreproxy"
...
Alternatively, you can change browser string from the code:
ISelenium selenium = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4444, "*iexploreproxy", "http://www.google.com/");
Works like a charm.
The only question remaing is if this somehow affects the outcome of the test cases. So far no, but I'll update this answer in case that would happen.
I ran into this on Windows 7 64bit.
My solution was:
Disable popup block. - Select "Tools/Popup Blocker/Turn off pop-up blocker"
Disable IE protected mode. - Untick "Tools/Internet Options/Security/Enable protected mode"
It'd be better just to disable protected modes for known trusted hosts/addresses. I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.
I was experiencing the same problem. I ran the Selenium RC server as an administrator and everything worked fine.
I, too, am experiencing this very problem on a Windows 7 64bit box, trying to run Selenium on it to test and ASP .Net MVC application, written in C#.
I am still trying to work out the answer for myself, but I thought I'd post here to tell you of a little progress I have made in getting something to work, albeit in Firefox instead of IE.
Here's the line I changed:
selenium = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4444, "*chrome C:/Program Files (x86)/Mozilla Firefox/firefox.exe", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/");
I would ideally like for this to work in Internet Explorer 8, but if for the moment, I can begin getting tests working and later change over to use IE again, then great.
Hope this helps for your problem with it all.
I had the same problem on Windows 7 64bit IE8. The first step was to disable the IE popup blocker. Then, I got a message in the status bar saying that "Pop-ups were blocked on this page. Press the 'Ctrl' key to allow the pop-ups".
It turns out that the Google Toolbar was providing this feature. Disabling it solved the problem. View > Toolbars > Google to toggle.
John.
If you happen to be doing this from JavaScriptMVC, there is a reference you need to change in \jmvc\plugins\test\drivers\selenium.js:
1) Change iexplore to iexploreproxy and you should get better results:
msie : (/iexploreproxy/i).test(browserStartCommand),
2) At this point, you'll find that you still get the popup error, but a separate instance of IE has started. Leave that IE window open and restart the tests, but not Selenium.
3) Next, the windows should show up in the right place, but IE gives the annoying block active content warning. Allow the content to run and restart the tests, but not Selenium itself.
This is super clunky, but it at least gets you past that part. If I find more methodical ways to do these things I'll update as needed.
I have had the same problem and have found another solution which works for me. Just use the *iexploreproxy setting in the browserString.
I used:
selenium = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4444, "*iexploreproxy C:/Program Files/Internet Explorer/iexplorer.exe", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/");
I hope that works for others too :)
You can start the test when you disable the Security mode of Internet. Don´t know the correct name for it, but in dutch it is beveiligde modus.
I tried modifiing the security settings to dublicate this security mode, but couldn´t find the correct setting for it. It must therefor block more then you can set manually.

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