[Python-Dev] Re: module extension search order - can it be changed?

[Guido van Rossum]

> In any case, I think there's room for providing more information in
> the traceback than there is now, even without decompiling
> anything. For example, I'd like to see some indication of the values
> (or at least the types) being passed to each function call. In many
> cases, that would save me a trip around the insert_print_statements-
> run-fix_the_bug-take_the_print_ statements_out_again loop.

Check out cgitb.py.  It does a lot of that (albeit in HTML).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)