How to debug PYGTK program

Question

When python raise an exception in the middle of a pygtk signal handling callback, the exception is catched by the gtk main loop, its value printed and the main loop just continue, ignoring it.

If you want to debug, with something like pdb (python -m pdb myscript.py), you want that when the exception occure PDB jump on it and you can start debuging. Because of that it's not possible.

How can i debug pygtk program then ?

Answer 1

the pdb.set_trace alternative didn't work for me. pdb was able to jump in in the console but the console itself wan not responding, I couldn't any commands.