For Python: ipdb. In your code, you can just drop in "import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace()" and the execution will stop there with an interactive prompt. Alternatively

For Python: ipdb. In your code, you can just drop in "import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace()" and the execution will stop there with an interactive prompt. Alternatively start the script through (i)pdb and set breakpoints. You can also use plain pdb ("import pdb; pdb.set_trace()"), which has the advantage that it comes with the Python stdlib, but the interactive prompt is less fancy (no history, no autocompletion, etc).