How To Debug A Program With Arguments In VSCode

[@rwstavros]

Well done. Quick, simple, and clearly explained. Not too fast, not too slow and words clearly articulated. Thanks.

[@coreyrunyon7678]

Perfect! Straight to the point, informative without over explaining, and the variable information I needed like passing a "-f" parameter. Thank you!

[@arielpriarone7125]

Finally a video that prioritize the useful informations

[@5nanometers]

Thank you. I had no idea how to debug programs that required terminal arguments. This helps a lot.

[@pawjast]

Nice and simple explanation 👍👍

[@charalamposkatsoukis8694]

Absolutely incredible video. Well done Sir! Exactly on point!

[@mpkrass]

I was searching for this forever. Thank you!

[@simonprentice8153]

This video was enough for me to subscribe. Thanks.

[@IamKhoramdin]

you saved my day. thank you

[@kelvinabambora9]

Thank you! Finally, an answer. You my god damn hero! easy subscribe

[@CaseDigital]

Glad I could help! Let me know if there are any other topics that you would like to hear about!

[@BruceElgort]

Thank you for this! I did not know about this feature.

[@detranquoc2608]

Thanks, can you make more videos about debugging, like debugging for python file containing imported files

[@malcolmanderson6735]

Exactly the video I needed

[@diogo2381]

Thank you very much for the tip!

[@click9000]

Thanks. This really help.

[@PumpkinEater6699]

Thanks a ton

[@pavelgrishin]

you could lay out the REQUIRED info a lot faster. You're a programmer to some extent? Heard anything about optimization?

[@CaseDigital]

Thanks for the feedback back I appreciate it! Yea I am a programmer. I have heard of optimization is there something in particular you’re looking to optimize?

[@elainamann7106]

You are my hero

[@PatrickSteil]

Needed to know how to pass both args like --debug=4 and -k value

[@CaseDigital]

Did this help or is an updated video needed?

[@PatrickSteil]

@@CaseDigital Here is what I had to do... for any who are looking for this also: "args": [ "--debug=4", "-k", "test_PROD_400_011" ],

[@1234567mrbob]

I don't see that option. All the options I see are "Open a folder", which pops open the file open dialog (useless!), and "Show all automatic debug configurations". If I click that I just see a list, from which I select python, and there is no option to create that file. What do I do?

[@CaseDigital]

@1234567mrbob if you are seeing that then you will want to click explorer icon on the very top left and the select the open folder button. Choose the folder where the code you want to debug is. Once that has loaded go back to the. Debug icon and you should now see the blue text that says create a launch.json file. It should be there unless you already have launch file. To tell if you have a launch folder you can check the explorer tab and see if there is a file called launch.json in a folder called .vscode that is in the root folder that is opened. Let me know if that helps

[@1234567mrbob]

@@CaseDigital Right. I found the answer. What I ended up doing was to go to the root (C:\), start Vcode, select the folder my script was in, and then I was able to create the launch.json file. From there I could add arguments. Kind of a roundabout way of doing it, so I'll try your approach next time.

[@jimmydesai9248]

@@CaseDigital Perfect. This was the missing piece for me in the video. Thanks!

[@paris_mars]

Good stuff. Thanks, man.

[@surfettekw]

How would you (or could you) run debugger through a series of arguments on the same script … like run script on argument a and then do b and then c…..

[@CaseDigital]

@surfettekw are you going to step through the debugging process with each argument (like do you have breakpoints setup in the script that you will stop at and check values) or are you trying to run different arguments and see what happens?

[@fanefierarul]

Thx a lot!

[@mentefria98]

what if when I click "create a launch.json file" and then select the python option, nothing happens and I don't get any "launch.json" file?

[@CaseDigital]

@mentefria98 if nothing is created then what you could do is in the root folder of your project create a “.vscode” folder and then within that create a launch.json file and then just write down what you see from the video. This is essentially the manual process to create what that button should do.

[@billnewsr.9314]

Very Interesting. How about a video doing the same but in a Visual Studio Code C# application using MVC?

[@CaseDigital]

Is there something on GitHub that you are using that you would like to see this done with?

[@billnewsr.9314]

@@CaseDigital python examples are great. I know how to do it... just that you did an excellent job with this video. Expanding the horizons on other style applications in Visual Studio Code is helpful. Thank you!

[@CaseDigital]

That’s a good point thank you for the feedback and I’ll look into it!

[@ronen2512]

just so much easier on eclipse

[@BenGawiser]

This video could've been a sentence. "Use 'args' in your launch file".

[@raymondfendyj6684]

Hey, I was doing the 'parse args' steps but I seemed to need to put the args in the order of the list of args defined, which some of them I do not actually need. Can you help me with this? I have around 40 arguments and would not be using all (some have default values). Thank you!

[@CaseDigital]

Have you tried making your args list in the debugging setup look something like this: “args”: [“argName1=val1”, “argname2=val2” …. With only the args you are inputting? This should allow you to skip the ordering for the arguments that have default values that you aren’t changing, but the arguments that don’t have default values will need inputted

[@raymondfendyj6684]

@@CaseDigital Oh I have resolved it with putting strings to all of my args (even to ints), surprised how it can detect which arg should be int/str/... ! Also tried dict but the args only accept list / string. Thanks for the video :") one of the few walk through that actually answers my question after a few hours of googling

[@CaseDigital]

Glad you were able to resolve your problem. Let me know if there is anything else I can help with!

[@thinhlpg]

Thank you!