Launch Python debugger while simultaneously executing module as script

Question

When developing a Python package, it\'s very convenient to use the -m option to run modules inside the package as scripts for quick testing. For example, for

Answer 1

There are efforts underway to solve this in Python itself. Looks like with Python 3.7, you can do:

python -m pdb -m somepackage.somemodule

And I've provided a backport for older Python versions (2.7+):

pip install backports.pdb
python -m backports.pdb -m somepackage.somemodule