Showing the method's class in expection's traceback

[Richard G Riley]

Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.42.desthuilliers at websiteburo.invalid> writes:

> 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 ?

Very obvious I would think. One can develop ones own interactive class
browser and code navigator. One can not bring up class help from "line 3
in x.py" but one can from "classname : MyClass at line 2 in z.py". With
the class name I can navigate directly to all sorts of class related
information without the need to delve into a physical usage of it e.g
program.py at line 3.