pdb has two very helpful functions (post_mortem and pm) which make it easy to launch a debugger after an exception has occurred. It would be extremely nice if bpdb could be a drop-in replacement like this:

try:
    import bpdb as pdb
except ImportError:
    import pdb

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/bobf/bpython/issue/209
• Originally Reported By: Chris Adams
• Originally Created At: 2012-01-17T23:12:58.611