[New-bugs-announce] [issue17951] TypeError during gdb backtracing

[Catalin Patulea]

New submission from Catalin Patulea:

With libpython.py loaded in gdb, when backtracing and trying to pretty-print frame objects along the way, this error is sometimes raised:

Python Exception <type 'exceptions.TypeError'> object of type 'FakeRepr' has no len()

See attached patch against tip.

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components: Demos and Tools
files: libpython-typeerror-str.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 188888
nosy: Catalin.Patulea, dmalcolm
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: TypeError during gdb backtracing
type: behavior
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file30212/libpython-typeerror-str.patch

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