Getting Stack Trace on segfault

[kyosohma at gmail.com]

On Apr 6, 7:13 am, James Stroud <jstr... at mbi.ucla.edu> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> The built-in mac osx vecLib is segfaulting in some cases--A very fun
> fact to find out the hard way over two nights of work. I also spent an
> embarrassing amount of time figuring out just where. Although I'm in
> quite a self-congratulatory mood right now, in the future, I feel like I
> could save a lot of time by coercing the interpreter to spew forth
> method calls to stderr. Is this possible?
>
> I would hope to produce something hauntingly reminiscent of
>
> [] my_function
> [my_function] another_function
> [my_function -> another_function] yet_a_deeper_function
>
> Presentation, of course, is irrelevant.
>
> I read the docs on pdb, but it did not seem to do what I want--unless,
> of course, I missed something.
>
> James

Hi,

I've never done that before, but I found a recipe that claims to do it
with meta-classes. Check it out:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/198078

I hope this gives you some ideas.

Mike