I'd like to help develop Python for fun and profit and I've heard that posting patch reviews to python-dev is a good way to contribute. So here goes: PATCH REVIEW: [ 1098732 ] Skip Montanaro has written a patch which makes it so that you can inspect variable values in tracebacks. IMHO, it is a brilliant idea and can make debugging quite alot easier. However, I'm not so fond of the way that he has implemented it, it needs work. He basically outputs all names in all stackframes all the way up to the top which makes the traceback look way to cluttered. He has also implemented it as a hook to sys.excepthook, I would ike it to be the default way in which tracebacks are printed, or atleast ctivated by a command line switch to Python. What does everyone else think? Does Skip's idea have any merit? http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1098732&group_id=5470&atid=305470 -- mvh Björn