#36057: Make `test --pdb` pass exception to `pdb.post_mortem()` on Python 3.13
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Reporter: Adam Johnson | Type: New
| feature
Status: new | Component: Testing
| framework
Version: dev | Severity: Normal
Keywords: | Triage Stage:
| Unreviewed
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Python 3.13 added support for navigating between chained exceptions in pdb
with [https://docs.python.org/3.14/library/pdb.html#pdbcommand-exceptions
the new 'exceptions' command].
Currently, using `test --pdb` does not allow this navigation, failing with
this message:
{{{
(Pdb) exceptions
Did not find chained exceptions. To move between exceptions,
pdb/post_mortem must be given an exception object rather than a traceback.
}}}
`PDBDebugResult` currently passes `pdb.post_mortem()` the traceback
object. But it turns out that the pdb changes in 3.13 also allow passing
an exception here, which is currently undocumented but I
[https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/128410 submitted a PR].
If we switch to passing the exception, it enables switching between
chained exceptions:
{{{
> /.../django/core/management/commands/dumpdata.py(285)handle()
-> raise CommandError("Unable to serialize database: %s" % e)
(Pdb) exceptions
0 TypeError("string argument expected, got 'bytes'")
> 1 CommandError("Unable to serialize database: string argument
expected, got 'by...
(Pdb) exceptions 0
> /.../django/core/management/base.py(181)write()
-> self._out.write(style_func(msg))
(Pdb)
}}}
(I actually made this change to debug a chained exception failure whilst
working on #36056.)
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