ipdb is soo much nicer than pdb

You use Ipython right? So why not use ipdb, its debugger.

However on Windows you  might have an issue if you call ipdb.set_trace() recursively, where the color coding breaks:

Starting ipdb inside ipython breaks color coding (windows)

The fix may be to comment or alter line 43 in __main__. Or just don't call ipdb.set_trace() in a loop, or from ipython :) .

Or even better use Doug Hellmann's tip and call ipdb from the command line using Python's call module option, `-m`.