Get current exception details in ipdb

So, I am debugging a program and want to see what is  currently active exception.

ipdb does not have a buitl-in command for this, so let's try using sys.exc_info():

> /home/vic/projects/test.py(4)<module>()
      2     1/0
      3 except:
----> 4     import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace()

ipdb> import sys; sys.exc_info()
(<type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>, AttributeError("Pdb instance has no attribute 'do_import'",), <traceback object at 0x2341bd8>)
ipdb> 

Hmm...

Ok, let's ask on Stackoverflow. And here is the solution: put

     alias exc_info !import sys; sys.exc_info() %1

into ~/.pdbrc

Now:

> /home/vic/projects/test.py(4)<module>()
      2     1/0
      3 except:
----> 4     import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace()

ipdb> exc_info
(<type 'exceptions.ZeroDivisionError'>, ZeroDivisionError('integer division or modulo by zero',), <traceback object at 0x7fe8dc7909e0>)
ipdb>