This is a bit of a weird article. It spends most of the time talking about logging, which is somewhat useful for debugging but not really. pdb gets a few lines of description, and that is about it.
Personally, I can't live without Pycharm when working with Python purely because of how fantastic the debugging experience is. The integration with the interactive IPython shell is simply fantastic, and the live variable viewer is also really handy. Between being able to prototype code in the interactive IPython REPL and then graduate it seamlessly to scripts/functions/classes, and then having an amazing debugging UX to fallback on for those bugs that slip through, I find myself to be orders of magnitude more efficient than when coding in something like vscode (which I absolutely love, and want to transition to for Python coding, but it is extremely limited in comparison to Pycharm, especially when it comes to the REPL experience + debugging).
Personally, I can't live without Pycharm when working with Python purely because of how fantastic the debugging experience is. The integration with the interactive IPython shell is simply fantastic, and the live variable viewer is also really handy. Between being able to prototype code in the interactive IPython REPL and then graduate it seamlessly to scripts/functions/classes, and then having an amazing debugging UX to fallback on for those bugs that slip through, I find myself to be orders of magnitude more efficient than when coding in something like vscode (which I absolutely love, and want to transition to for Python coding, but it is extremely limited in comparison to Pycharm, especially when it comes to the REPL experience + debugging).