[Python-Dev] Patch review: [ 1098732 ] Enhance tracebacks and stack traces with vars

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 12:21 AM 2/10/05 +0100, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>>Yes, but not as a default behavior.  Many people already consider the 
>>fact that tracebacks display file paths to be a potential security 
>>problem.  If anything, the default traceback display should have less 
>>information, not more.  (E.g., display module __name__ instead of the 
>>code's __file__).
>
>Notice that this patch does not change the exception printing behaviour
>of Python at all. It just changes the implementation of
>traceback.print_exception, so it only affects code that actually uses
>this function. Furthermore, it only affects code that uses this function
>and is *changed* to supply the argument True for print_args.

I was just responding to the OP, who was advocating it for Python default 
behavior, or behavior controlled by the command line.  That's why I said, 
"Yes, but not as a default behavior."