exconsole

Emergency/postmortem Python console

Installation from PyPI::

pip install python-exconsole

DEB and RPM packages are available in Ajenti repositories: http://support.ajenti.org/

Quick start::

import exconsole
exconsole.register()

do_dangerous_stuff()

Console can be invoked by sending SIGQUIT or just pressing Ctrl-\

Example of work::

Activating emergency console
----------------------------
Caused by:
ZeroDivisionError
integer division or modulo by zero

Stack frames:
  [  0] example.py:17
          
  [  1] example.py:15
              Tester().test()
  [  2] example.py:9
                  self.inner()
  [  3] example.py:6
                  self.divide(2, 0)
> [  4] example.py:3
                  return a / b
On frame 4
Source:
           def divide(self, a, b):
    >>         return a / b

Press Ctrl-D to leave console
Type "_help()"" for built-in commands

>>> print a,b
2 0
>>> _f(3)
On frame 3
Source:
           def inner(self):
    >>         self.divide(2, 0)

>>> print self
<__main__.Tester instance at 0x7f67c9a0e440>