[Python-Dev] Reference cycles in Exception.traceback (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Mar 6 22:41:44 CET 2014


Antoine Pitrou wrote:

We might allow the creation of traceback objects, but without any custom frame objects it is unclear how useful that would be.

When I was implementing Pyrex, I would have found it very useful to be able to create Traceback objects without Frames, but only if the Traceback were able to hold a line number.

As it was, I had to create an entire fake Frame object filled with mostly dummy values, just to get line numbers printed in the traceback.

-- Greg



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