Don’t collapse 3rd-party stack frames (or at least not as aggressively)

[flying-sheep]

Since you started collapsing 3rd party stack frames, my debug experience has gotten much worse. Generally, almost every time when hitting a breakpoint, I now have to click once to expand 3rd party stack frames.

So please give me an option to disable collapsing them.

To improve the experience, I think I’d also be kinda OK with them being collapsed if

• that only happens when there are stack frames pointing to my code in the first place. This is useless:

  

• my decision to expand gets remembered in a session, e.g. when I

  1. hit a breakpoint
  2. expand stack frames
  3. see that I’m not in the code path I’m looking for
  4. press play
  5. hit the same breakpoint again

  then I obviously don’t want to collapse the stack frames I just expanded

[rchiodo]

This actually isn't caused by the debugger extension. VS code made this change. Please enter an issue on VS code.

[flying-sheep]

OK, so the metadata emitted is called something like “own code” or “3rd party”, and not something like “hidden”, right?

[rchiodo]

If you turn on logging:

    {
      "name": "Python Debugger: Current File",
      "type": "debugpy",
      "request": "launch",
      "program": "${file}",
      "console": "integratedTerminal",
      "justMyCode": true,
      "logToFile": true,
    }

It should write out logs to the same folder as where the debugger extension is installed.

That should show the flags on the stack frame results. I thought it was presentation hint, but i'm having a hard time reproducing hidden stack frames.

[flying-sheep]

i'm having a hard time reproducing hidden stack frames.

"justMyCode": false, put breakpoint in 3rd party code you’re calling.

or have any kind of dependency injection or callbacks or test harness or …

[rchiodo]

Okay that worked. Yeah it returns a presentation hint. VS code is using that to hide everything. They didn't used to.

                 "body": {
                     "stackFrames": [
                         {
                             "id": 2,
                             "name": "realpath",
                             "line": 738,
                             "column": 20,
                             "source": {
                                 "path": "C:\\Users\\rchiodo\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python314\\Lib\\ntpath.py",
                                 "sourceReference": 0
                             },
                             "endColumn": 43,
                             "presentationHint": "subtle"
                         }
                     ],
                     "totalFrames": 3
                 }

[flying-sheep]

Thanks, yes, that’s the problem.

Since it’s not explicitly called “hidden” or “collapsed”, I think it’s fair to say this is a VS Code issue and not an issue here, thank you!