[Python-Dev] Two useful patches involving tracebacks

[Guido van Rossum]

>     >> [ 569574 ] plain text enhancement for cgitb
>     >> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=569574&group_id=5470&atid=305470
> 
>     Guido> I'll add my usual disclaimer that I haven't had time to
>     Guido> review these, but the proposed functionality certainly
>     Guido> makes sense to add.
> 
> There was a little discussion about the cgitb patch when I first
> submitted it.  The problem isn't so much that it does anything
> wrong, it's that it suggests the traceback and cgitb modules should
> probably be refactored.  Much of what cgitb does probably belongs in
> the traceback module, with an HTML report generator in cgitb and a
> plain text report generator elsewhere (perhaps in traceback).
> 
> At any rate, if someone else would look at it and pronounce, I'd be
> happy to check it in.  The enhanced plain text tracebacks should be
> extremely helpful when analyzing tracebacks from long-running
> processes where you can't simply throw in a couple prints and re-run
> the program.

Sad though it is, a major refactoring would be a higher risk than just
checking in the changes now.  Maybe the refactoring can be planned for
2.4.

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