[Python-checkins] peps: PEP 454: the traceback idea comes from the faulthandler module

[victor.stinner]

http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/1b18c703c201
changeset:   5211:1b18c703c201
user:        Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com>
date:        Tue Oct 22 17:04:24 2013 +0200
summary:
  PEP 454: the traceback idea comes from the faulthandler module

files:
  pep-0454.txt |  6 +++++-
  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)


diff --git a/pep-0454.txt b/pep-0454.txt
--- a/pep-0454.txt
+++ b/pep-0454.txt
@@ -49,7 +49,11 @@
 
 Using the customized allocation API from PEP 445, it becomes easy to
 set up a hook on Python memory allocators. A hook can inspect Python
-internals to retrieve Python tracebacks.
+internals to retrieve Python tracebacks. The idea of getting the current
+traceback comes from the faulthandler module. The faulthandler dumps
+the traceback of all Python threads on a crash, here is the idea is to
+get the traceback of the current Python thread when a memory block is
+allocated by Python.
 
 This PEP proposes to add a new ``tracemalloc`` module, as a debug tool
 to trace memory blocks allocated by Python. The module provides the

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