[Python-Dev] Two useful patches involving tracebacks

[Guido van Rossum]

> The first one is a no-brainer bugfix that helps users of COM on
> Windows.  The second one has some question as to whether it's the
> correct implementation, but I can vouch that if nothing else, it's
> incredibly useful and I haven't had any problems with it.
> 
> [ 672855 ] improve pydoc handling of extension types
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=672855&group_id=5470&atid=305470
> 
> [ 569574 ] plain text enhancement for cgitb
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=569574&group_id=5470&atid=305470
> 
> I'm calling attention to these patches simply because I've found
> them to be so useful, and it would be a shame to see them not make
> it into 2.3 beta 2 simply due to lack of attention.  If it helps,
> I'm willing to do the checkins if I'm granted CVS write access :-)

I'll add my usual disclaimer that I haven't had time to review these,
but the proposed functionality certainly makes sense to add.

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