Can I call the werkzeug debugger in Django without needing to raise an exception or using assertions?

Question

I'm currently using Werkzeug together with django-extensions and I'm able to call the werkzeug debugger by raising an exception or making a false assertion. Is it possible to just set a breakpoint for werkzeug like import pdb; pdb.set_trace() does?

Answer 1

If you are using Apache/mod_wsgi, all you need to do is modify your .wsgi file to include:

from werkzeug.debug import DebuggedApplication

and

application = get_wsgi_application()
application = DebuggedApplication(application, evalex=True)

Then you can access the python shell at "example.com/console " (Note the space after console!)