Question

Django has the (usually fine) behaviour of turning exceptions in templates into empty strings. So if I do {{object.fn_which_throws_exception}} I just get an empty string. But sometimes I would like to know something about the exception: is there any way to make django present or log the details of such exceptions?

Answer 1

If you’re using runserver you could use pdb to step through the code.

Add import pdb; pdb.set_trace() above the problematic code. Go to the URL in question in your browser and pdb should pause the execution and let you step through the code line by line.

http://docs.python.org/library/pdb.html