setting breakpoints with nosetests --pdb option

Question

nosetests --pdb let\'s me halt upon error or failure, but this is too late for my needs. Stepping through code during execution helps me debug where the problem is.

Answer 1

You can add

import pdb; pdb.set_trace() 

anywhere in your source that you want to stop in the debugger.

Make sure you pass -s to nose so that it does not capture stdout.