How do I enable post mortem debugging in pydev?

Question

I want to make pydev enter into an interactive console mode whenever my program raises an unhandled exception but I can\'t figure out how to do it. As it behaves now, the except

Answer 1

Ok, so after a while I figured out the obvious, the code should be:

import pydevd
pydevd.GetGlobalDebugger().setExceptHook(Exception, True, False)

To capture any unhadled exceptions. The method can be used in other ways to enter debug mode when the program crashes, as documented in the doc of setExceptHook:

Should be called to set the exceptions to be handled and whether it should break on uncaught and caught exceptions.

Can receive a parameter to stop only on some exceptions.

    E.g.:
        set_pm_excepthook((IndexError, ValueError), True, True)

        or

        set_pm_excepthook(IndexError, True, False)

        if passed without a parameter, will break on any exception

    @param handle_exceptions: exception or tuple(exceptions)
        The exceptions that should be handled.

    @param break_on_uncaught bool
        Whether it should break on uncaught exceptions.

    @param break_on_caught: bool
        Whether it should break on caught exceptions.

I hope this'll help others who wants to use the pydev debugger in eclipse for debugging a program after an exception has been raised.