bug in inspect (was cgitb vs traceback)

[Robin Becker]

Fernando Perez wrote:
> Robin Becker wrote:
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>>Robin Becker wrote:
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>>>No I'll mosy on over and see if it's known. I have a fix in place in our
>>>code, but we had to modify it yesterday as we're delivering for 2.1.
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>>I didn't find anything similar there so I submitted a bug report and the
>>patch I used. I think it's far too late for 2.3.4.
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> Do you have the SF bug number handy?  I'd like to track this one in detail, in
> case it really is what is giving my ipython users problems.  Push comes to
> shove, I could always patch inspect.py 'live' for the users at import time,
> that's the beauty of python :)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> f
It's bug 954364. Your method is exactly what I did ie inject the patched
functions into inspect at run time. Python may not be so easy to patch 
in future if altering other module's name spaces becomes harder.
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Robin Becker