Showing the method's class in expection's traceback

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Gabriel Genellina a écrit :
> En Sun, 18 May 2008 17:31:44 -0300, Diez B. Roggisch
> <deets at nospam.web.de> escribió:
>> Agustin Villena schrieb:
> 
>>> is there anyway to show the class of a method in an exception's 
>>> traceback?
>>> 
>>> I want to improve the line File "G:\dev\exceptions\sample.py",
>>> line 3, in foo
>>> 
>>> to File "G:\dev\exceptions\sample.py", line 3, in Some.foo
>>> 
>>> Is this improvement feasible
>> It should be. You can get a dictionary of the locals of an
>> exception stack frame, of which you could extract the
>> self-parameter's class.
> 
> That by itself is not enough, the method could be inherited; one
> should walk the base classes in the MRO to find the right one. And
> deal with classmethods and staticmethods. And decorators that don't
> preserve meta information... 

And monkeypatches.

> Hmmm, I think it isn't so trivial as it
> seems.

And not that useful - why would one care about the function being 
defined in class X or Y when one have the exact file and line ?