[Tutor] Clarification on Debugging under IDLE

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Tue Apr 24 20:05:15 CEST 2007


J.T. Hurley wrote:
> On the debug control, what is the difference between "go," over," and "out?"

What debug control are you using?

Debuggers usually have three kinds of stepping. The names vary but the 
concepts are the same:

step in - execute the next line of code; if it is a subroutine call, 
stop at the first line of code in the subroutine

step over - execute the next line of code; if it is a subroutine call, 
execute the entire subroutine and stop at the line of code after the call

step out - execute the current subroutine until reaching a return statement

Kent


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