Weird behaviour using if statement in python 3.10.8

[mikepy]

This is what I have also encountered after trying lots and lots of things in VS Code and the debugger, that it doesn't behave well at anytime. Your example shows this also. In my opinion the debugger needs serious updates in the future and I hope these kind of issues will be fixed as best as it can. Nevertheless, it calms me down that not only I encounter such wired behaviors, but others, too. Nevertheless, thank you very much for spending so much time to help me out. One last thing do you believe that pycharm is a better choice? I have used it in past, but it consumes a lot of resources on my laptop. In my opinion, the debugger of pycharm behave better.