traceback – Page 3 – Tarik Billa

Showing the stack trace from a running Python application

September 23, 2022 by Tarik

I have module I use for situations like this – where a process will be running for a long time but gets stuck sometimes for unknown and irreproducible reasons. Its a bit hacky, and only works on unix (requires signals): import code, traceback, signal def debug(sig, frame): “””Interrupt running process, and provide a python prompt … Read more

Determine function name from within that function (without using traceback)

September 9, 2022 by Tarik

import inspect def foo(): print(inspect.stack()[0][3]) print(inspect.stack()[1][3]) # will give the caller of foos name, if something called foo foo() output: foo <module_caller_of_foo>

How to catch and print the full exception traceback without halting/exiting the program?

August 31, 2022 by Tarik

traceback.format_exc() or sys.exc_info() will yield more info if that’s what you want. import traceback import sys try: do_stuff() except Exception: print(traceback.format_exc()) # or print(sys.exc_info()[2])