[py-dev] how should i handle errors in the traceback filter hooks

[holger krekel]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:00 +0100, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i just finished the initial version of the traceback filter hook
> while it was just as simple as holger said, i lack an idea on how to
> handle errors in that hook.
> 
> btw, the current patch is http://paste.pocoo.org/show/166660/
> 
> 
> so it spills out a nasty/huge internalerror if i make misstakes in my
> own implementations of that hook within a conftest.

for now, i'd catch the exception and just use the un-abbreviated traceback. 

Maybe you can issue a hook.pytest_trace("filter_traceback", msg)
which one could see if "--debug" or "--traceconfig" is given. 

holger

> tests will be written once i figure the error handling
> 
> -- Ronny
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