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I do have a flask application running on port 8000 because i have logstash running on port 5000.

app.run(debug=True, host='0.0.0.0', port=8000)

i can run my app successfully. but when i use VScode debugger it throws

OSError: [Errno 98] Address already in use

because the debugger tries to run my app on port 5000. i tried editing .vscode/launch.json and set "port": 8000 inside configurations but the error still the same. how can i tell the VScode to run my app with debugger on another port?

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Add args key to your debug configuration and set the port there:

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/debugging#_set-configuration-options

{
    "name": "Python: startup.py",
    "type": "python",
    "request": "launch",
    "program": "${workspaceFolder}/startup.py",
    "args" : ["run", "--port", "8000"]
}