Debug console on interactive Python script not able to create new variables

[rvillar-villari]

Hi,

I am experiencing many issues with the Python debugger in VS Code, but this one seems especially silly. I am currently debugging a Python script that I have separated into cells, so I have my script with the debugger active on it, the interactive window and then another panel with my variables, terminal and debug console.

Right now, the debug console is unable to create new variables. I wanted to copy a variable to test something on it, but it cannot find the newly created variable (see screenshot below). Any idea why this is? As I said, I have been having many issues so potentially this could have something to do with something more complex going on? Would be happy to elaborate if needed.

[rvillar-villari]

Also I just had the issue that when I tried to debug the cell, VS Code opened a sort of temporary file where only the code of the cell being debugged is shown, looks like plain text, and I cannot interact with the code.

[karthiknadig]

Moving this to debugpy since the execution is handled there.

@rchiodo I think this might be due to running this in eval mode, but there should be a fallback that runs in exec mode if eval fails. It may have been removed to prevent side effects.

[karthiknadig]

This seems to work for me for scripts:

@rvillar-villari is this notebook debugging?

[rchiodo]

This sort of thing has happened before but we were never able to get a consistent repro. Can you turn on logging as described here and upload the logs?

https://github.com/microsoft/debugpy/wiki/Enable-debugger-logs

Additionally can you try this with 3.11 and see if it reproduces there?