Debugging

Despite the most rigorous testing, the sad reality is, we still have to deal with bugs. Django tries its best to be as helpful as possible while reporting an error to help you in debugging. However, it takes a lot of skill to identify the root cause of the problem.

Thankfully, with the right set of tools and techniques, we can not only identify the bugs but also gain great insight into the runtime behavior of your code. Let's take a look at some of these tools.

Django debug page

If you have encountered any exception in development, that is, when DEBUG=True, then you would have already seen an error page similar to the following screenshot:

Since it comes up so frequently, most developers tend to miss the wealth of information in this page. ...

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