Allow modifying global variables from the variables panel

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#1,857 opened on Mar 5, 2025 4 comments 0 reactions 1 assignee View on GitHub

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Since Mar 5, 2025.

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Description

enhancement Fixed in next release

Environment data

debugpy version: 1.8.13
OS and version: Windows 11
Python version (& distribution if applicable, e.g. Anaconda): 3.12.7
Using VS Code or Visual Studio: VS Code 1.93.1

Actual behavior

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9ec3ca67-de5c-4ab7-a35b-905840013559

Expected behavior

To either prohibit editing global variable in that case as it's not editable or actually edit it.

Steps to reproduce:

Set breakpoint at b = 35 in the snippet below and run it.
Attach to Python using debugger.
Change c value in Variables section to 1000.
Step Over (F10), global variable is moved to locals and global variable value is reset.

What I've also noticed that if on step 3 I run globals()['c'] in Debug Console, it prints 0 and Variables are reset as we would be on the step 4.

c = 0

def main():
    a = 25

    import debugpy
    debugpy.listen(5678)
    debugpy.wait_for_client()

    b = 35
    print(a + b + c)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

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