local post mortem (like how ruby-debug Debugger.post_mortem (&block).py

from __future__ import with_statement

import pdb
import sys
from contextlib import contextmanager

@contextmanager
def local_post_mortem():
	"""Use this in a with statement to break into the PDB if the stament throws an exception"""
	try:
		yield
	except:
		err, detail, tb = sys.exc_info() 
		pdb.post_mortem(tb)
	





# EXAMPLE FOLLOWS:
#=========================================
def main():
	with local_post_mortem():
		1 + "a"
	


main()