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

I wrote a package to start pdb on exception. It takes @boreis-gorelik's answer, and modifies the interpreter state at runtime so no code changes are necessary:

Installation

 pip install mort

Usage

mort 

When the exception occurs, the pdb repl should start in the given terminal