tkinter shell problem

[Eric Brunel]

Philippe C. Martin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have the following problem:
> 
> I wrote a tkinter shell which on a key return event first evals the input 
> buffer (in a try: except:) and then, in case of except, execs the input 
> buffer.
> 
> 
> I have the problem if the exec fails:
> 
> If I trap it, I do not get the stack dump that I which I would show.

Why? When catching an exception, you can get the exception type, the exception 
itself and the traceback object via the sys.exc_info() function. You can then 
use the traceback module to format the traceback just as Python would print it 
if the exception went to the top-most level.

HTH
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