Python tricks: “Press Enter to exit” on unhandled exception

When I write Python scripts on Windows, I often write a main() function, and when it throws an exception I don't handle, the console window closes immediately before giving me a chance to look at the traceback.

The bottom of main.py usually has these 2 lines, which call the main() function when the script is started by a double-click on the .py file:

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Replace them with:

import sys, traceback
if __name__ == '__main__':
    try:
        main()
    except:
        traceback.print_exc()
        print >>sys.stderr
        print >>sys.stderr, "Press Enter to exit."
        blah = raw_input()

WordPress code-posting rant
In addition to what I wrote here, you should also replace any apostrophes with: '