I finally took Josh's advice and started digging deeper into Pycharms visual debugger. But I quickly ran into an issue using envdir for our prestige projects. There doesn't seem like there is a way to prepend the django manage.py command with envdir. So I modified the manage.py file with these few lines to load your envdir/ folder. The added benefit of this is you can just type python /manage.py runserver. Otherwise you would have to manually enter all the required Enviromental variables into pycharm by hand and also track the changes. I figured I share this.
if 'local' in sys.argv:
env_dir = os.path.join('local', 'envdir')
else:
env_dir = 'envdir/dev'
env_variables = glob.glob(os.path.join(project_path, env_dir, '*'))
for env_var in env_variables:
with open(env_var, 'r') as env_var_file:
os.environ.setdefault(
env_var.split(os.sep)[-1],
env_var_file.read().strip()
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