Question

Besides wrapping all your code in try except, is there any way of achieving the same thing as running your script like python -mpdb script? I’d like to be able to see what went wrong when an exception gets raised.

Answer 1

If you do not want to modify the source then yOu could run it from ipython – an enhanced interactive python shell.

e.g. run ipython then execute %pdb on to enable post-mortem debugging. %run scriptname will then run the script and automatically enter the debugger on any uncaught exceptions.

Alternatively %run -d scriptname will start the script in the debugger.