[Python-ideas] feature to make traceback objects usable without references to frame locals and globals

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 7:53 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>>> He's not talking about creating traceback objects outside the core, but
>>> being able to reuse tracebacks created by the core without keeping alive
>>> a whole chain of objects.
>>
>> With the question I was referring to the suggestion by
>> Greg Ewing in which he seemed to imply that Pyrex and Cython
>> create traceback objects.
> 
> When Python code calls into Pyrex/C code which then call back into
> Python, I understand they insert dummy frames into the tracebacks to
> make the call stack more complete.

Thanks for that bit of information. I suppose they do this for
better error reporting, right ?

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