[masklinn]

> But prints work equally well in any environment.

GP say they "have debugger set in pycharm and use it all the time". So under the assumption (explicitly made in my comment) that they're always using PyCharm to run their program, that's not a concern.

> I can remove prints by just checking out the latest version of the file.

Thereby losing all the changes you've made while observing program behaviour, which may be less than desirable.

Meanwhile it's just as easy if not easier to disable or delete breakpoints from the View Breakpoints pane / window: https://i1.wp.com/cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*0wAP-w-a... you can just uncheck the "Python Line Breakpoints" box, or select all breakpoints and [Delete] them.