Minimising stack trace

[Rustom Mody]

On Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 6:54:23 AM UTC+5:30, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> On Friday, May 15, 2015 at 8:57:53 PM UTC-4, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > On Sat, 16 May 2015 05:41 am, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> > 
> > > Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> > > 
> > >> While playing with recursion I get:
> > >>     RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in comparison
> > >> 
> > >> But then I get a very long stack trace. Is there a way to make this a
> > >> lot shorter. Now I 'lose' interesting information because of the length
> > >> of the stack trace.
> > > 
> > > <http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>
> > 
> > There ought to be a website that explains how to give smart answers.
> 
> Or one that explains how to be kind to those that don't know
> the ropes yet.  Though pointing impatient experts at a
> website probably won't get them to change any more than
> brusquely pointing newbs at a website will.

How about a 'answerer-quota' 😇 ?

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