[Python-Dev] sys.settrace does not produce events for C functions

[Guido van Rossum]

As I posted to the issue:

The reason not to pass C calls to the tracing function is that tracing
exists to support pdb and other debuggers, and pdb only cares about tracing
through Python code. So the docs should be updated.

On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 11:40 AM, Pablo Galindo Salgado <pablogsal at gmail.com
> wrote:

> The docs for sys.settrace mention that:
>
> >> event is a string: 'call', 'line', 'return', 'exception', >> 'c_call',
> 'c_return', or 'c_exception'
>
> But in the code for ceval.c the only point where call_trace is invoked
> with PyTrace_C_CALL or PyTrace_C_RETURN is under the C_TRACE macro. In this
> macro this line prevents any function set up using sys.settrace to call
> call_trace with the mentioned arguments:
>
> if (tstate->use_tracing && tstate->c_profilefunc)
>
> Notice that from the code of PyEval_SetTrace and PyEval_SetProfile, only
> the later sets tstate->c_profilefunc and therefore only functions installed
> using sys.setprofile will recieve a c_call for the event.
>
> Xiang Zhan has suggested me to ask here what is the best course of action:
>
> 1) Document this behavior.
>
> 2) Fix the code.
>
> This question is related to this issue:
> https://bugs.python.org/issue17799
>
> Thanks everyone for your time!
>
> Pablo
>
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