On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Gerald Britton <gerald.brit...@gmail.com> wrote: > In the following example, I raise an exception in function h() which > prints a traceback. I would like to know how I can get a similar > display on my terminal without raising an exception. That is, can I > replace "raise Exception" in function h() with some sequence of > instructions (possibly using the inspect module) that will generate a > similar call trace of how I got to that point? > > Example: > >>>> def f(): > ... g() > ... >>>> def g(): > ... h() > ... >>>> def h(): > ... raise Exception # Replace with something to generate a call trace > ... >>>> f() > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > File "<stdin>", line 2, in f > File "<stdin>", line 2, in g > File "<stdin>", line 2, in h > Exception >>>>
traceback.print_stack(): http://docs.python.org/library/traceback.html#traceback.print_stack Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
