[Python-Dev] Asynchronous use of Traceback objects

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 06:24 PM 9/3/2005 +1000, Christopher Armstrong wrote:
>For example, perhaps a better idea would be to
>change the traceback-printing functions to use Python attribute lookup
>instead of internal structure lookup, and then change raise to accept
>arbitrary Python objects as its third argument, as long as it matches
>the traceback interface.

Given that traceback printing isn't a performance-critical activity, there 
probably isn't a reason any more for requiring a particular C layout.  On 
the other hand, being able to create frame or traceback instances or 
subclasses would probably also solve your problem, without having to do too 
much hacking on the C code that expects a particular layout.