[New-bugs-announce] [issue15262] Idle does not show traceback in other threads

[Mark]

New submission from Mark <myagna01 at students.poly.edu>:

Consider the following code:

from thread import start_new
def f(): typo #there is no variable called typo
start_new(f, ())

If run from the command line, this produces a traceback.  If run from IDLE, it does not.  I suspect this is not by design.  This caused me endless grief in debugging until one happy day I discovered the traceback module.  I now write:

from thread import start_new
from traceback import print_exc
def f():
 try: typo
 except: print_exc()
start_new(f, ())

this works, but I wish I didn't need it.

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components: IDLE
messages: 164718
nosy: Mark
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Idle does not show traceback in other threads
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7

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