Python Unit Testing: Automatically Running the Debugger when a test fails

Question

Is there a way to automatically start the debugger at the point at which a unittest fails?

Right now I am just using pdb.set_trace() manually, but this is very tedio

Answer 1

I think what you are looking for is nose. It works like a test runner for unittest.

You can drop into the debugger on errors, with the following command:

nosetests --pdb