Hi all I'm currently having some issues with a process getting deadlocked. The problem is that the only way I can seem to find information about where it deadlocks is by making a wild guess, insert a pdb.set_trace() before this point, and then step until it locks up, hoping that I've guessed right.
The frustrating part is that most of the time my guesses are wrong. It would be really nice if I could send the python process some signal which would cause it to print the current stacktrace and exit immediately. That way I would quickly be able to pinpoint where in the code the deadlock happens. Java has a somewhat similar feature where you can send a running VM process a SIGQUIT, to which it will respond by dumping all current threads and lots of other information on stdout. Is this possible somehow? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
