Python - start interactive debugger when exception would be otherwise thrown

Question

Is there any way to make a python program start an interactive debugger, like what import pdb; pdb.set_trace() instead of actually throwing an exception?

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Answer 1

This question is quite old, so this is mainly for future me

try:
    ...
except:
    import traceback, pdb, sys
    traceback.print_exc()
    print ''
    pdb.post_mortem()
    sys.exit(1)