About reading Python code

[WaterWalk]

On Mar 17, 11:54 am, WaterWalk <toolmas... at 163.com> wrote:
> Hello. I wonder what's the effective way of figuring out how a piece
> of python code works. With C I often find it very useful to be able to
> run the code in step mode and set breakpoints in a debugger so I can
> watch how the it executes, how the data change and how the code jumps
> from one function to another. But with Python, the debugger is a
> little primitive. The default IDLE doesn't even allow me to set a
> breakpoint. When the code is long, I am often lost in it.
>
> So I'm curious how to read code effectively. I agree that python code
> is clear, but when it becomes long, reading it can still be a hard
> work.

BTW. I think this problem also exists in other script languages.