Debugging with pycharm, how to step into project, without entering django libraries

Question

Think about this scenario:

I debug my Django project and I step through the code (in and out). The debugger sometimes enters Django libraries or other external libra

Answer 1

Does anyone know how to prevent the debugger from entering external code?

Yes, Dmitry Trofimov knows;

(...) add modules you don't want to trace to the dict DONT_TRACE in /helpers/pydev/pydevd.py
That is a hacky solution (...)

If you want this feature to be less hacky you can vote on it by visiting issue
PY-9101 Implement "Do not step into the classes" option for Python debugger

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Those using pdb might be interested to know there is such a feature in pdb;

Starting with Python 3.1, Pdb class has a new argument called skip -

class pdb.Pdb(completekey='tab', stdin=None, stdout=None, skip=None, nosigint=False)

The skip argument, if given, must be an iterable of glob-style module name patterns. The debugger will not step into frames that originate in a module that matches one of these patterns. 1

1 Whether a frame is considered to originate in a certain module is determined by the __name__ in the frame globals.

The example given in the docs shows how to skip Django's packages -

import pdb; pdb.Pdb(skip=['django.*']).set_trace()