[Python-Dev] Asynchronous use of Traceback objects

[Christopher Armstrong]

On 9/4/05, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> 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.

I guess the biggest difference in these two strategies, to me, is that
one can be implemented in an external module while the other
*requires* changes to CPython to work. So I'll do the former, i.e.,
writing C functions that construct traceback objects, accessible from
Python. Maybe after I do that I could write a PEP (if that's
necessary) on changing the traceback stuff on a more fundamental
level, to allow for Python objects.

putting-on-his-C-gloves-ly,
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