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Annada Behera <annada@tilde.green> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Recently I have been increasingly adding this piece of code as
> a preamble to a lot of my code.
>
>     import (sys, os, ipdb)
>
>     def debug_hook(exc_type, exc_value, traceback):
>         if exc_type is KeyboardInterrupt:
>             sys.__excepthook__(exc_type, exc_value, traceback)
>             return
>         print(f"Uncaught exception: {exc_type.__name__}: {exc_value}")
>         ipdb.post_mortem(traceback)
>
>     if os.environ.get('DEBUG'): sys.excepthook = debug_hook

Pretty nice contribution!  I had no idea such thing was possible with
Python.  The more Common Lispy it gets, the better it feels! :>