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

Third party test framework enhancements generally seem to include the feature (nose and nose2 were already mentioned in other answers). Some more:

pytest supports it.

pytest --pdb

Or if you use absl-py's absltest instead of unittest module:

name_of_test.py --pdb_post_mortem