On May 20, 5:59 pm, Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
This is not exactly an answer to your proposal, I know, but FWIW Ipython has exactly this capability. Regards, ~S -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
