There's an occasional question here about how to get python to launch pdb on encountering an uncaught exception. The answer is to look in some ASPN recipe and do some weird magic. I guess that works, but it's another thing to remember or keep looking up when the occasion arises (some program crashes unexpectedly). I find myself manually adding tracing instead, finding out that I did it wrong and having to re-launch a long-running program, etc.
I'd like to propose that debug-on-exception be made into a standard feature that is easy to enable, e.g. with a command line option or with a simple pdb call immediately after the import: import pdb pdb.debug_on_exception(True) ... Would there be big obstacles to this? It would have saved me considerable hassle on a number of occasions. I'm constantly processing large data sets that will munch along happily for hours and hours before hitting some unanticipated condition in the data, and it would be great to trap immediately rather than have to analyze the resulting stack dump and restart. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
