So, I'm figuring there should be some generic library that does this. Does anyone have experience with one they could recommend? PyCrash comes to mind: http://pycrash.sourceforge.net/, though the XML output doesn't excite me (but the post-mortem debugging data is nice). py.test makes nice tracebacks with extra data as well, and cgitb is another option, though I've found the code to be poorly factored for reusability when I've looked at it in the past. Zope includes an otherwise-Zope-neutral ExceptionFormatter, which isn't terribly exciting, except that it does look for __traceback_info__ local variables and create reports with those inlined. Maybe there's something better that's packaged as part of a larger framework? Does anyone have good or bad experience with PyCrash?
Localized application extensibility is really useful to me as well; for instance, in a web application I like to know who the logged-in user is, and all sorts of environment information, and there's no way to do that that is common to all the environments I'd like this to work in. On the reporting end configuration and hooks are also really useful; e.g., there's no general way to display an exception report on a web page, so a web framework would have to hook into it in some way as well.
I feel like there must be something out there, since every Python programmer has to deal with this sort of thing to some degree...?
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