[Python-Dev] Re: Useful thread project for 2.5?

[Michael Hudson]

"Phillip J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com> writes:

> Which reminds me, btw, it would be nice while we're adding more
> execution control functions to have a way to get the current trace
> hook and profiling hook,

Well, there's the f_trace member of frame objects, but I honestly
can't remember what it's for...

> not to mention ways to set them on non-current threads.  You can do
> these things from C of course; I mean accessible as part of the
> Python API.

Again, given sys._current_frames(), this shouldn't be very hard.

Cheers,
mwh

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