Try "pudb" instead of "pdb" if you want a fullscreen debugger. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pudb http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pudb Also, agreed with tomlu -- th

Try "pudb" instead of "pdb" if you want a fullscreen debugger. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pudb http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pudb Also, agreed with tomlu -- this will work for any python app (as long as it doesn't do strange things to stdout -- nose and daemons are probably the most common examples of things that do change stdout).