[Python-ideas] introspectable assertions

[Skip Montanaro]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 4:56 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> Python already has hooks for customizing tracebacks, see the cgitb
> module.

Thanks for that reminder. I had forgotten completely about it. In the
environment in which I work, we have an exception handler of last
resort which logs the traceback to our log file, then exits. This
would probably be a good place for me to log the return value of
cgitb.text(sys.exc_info()) instead. Sure, it will often dump a fair
amount of noise to the log file, but every once in awhile it will
probably include a clue which is currently lost.

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