[New-bugs-announce] [issue26823] Shrink recursive tracebacks

[Emanuel Barry]

New submission from Emanuel Barry:

I recently suggested on Python-ideas ( https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2016-April/039899.html ) to shrink long tracebacks if they were all the same noise (recursive calls). Seeing as the idea had a good reception, I went ahead and implemented a small patch for this.

It doesn't keep track of call chains, and I'm not sure if we want to implement that, as the performance decrease needed to store all of that might not be worth it. But then again, if an error happened performance is probably not a concern in this case.

I've never really coded in C before, so feedback is very much welcome.

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components: Interpreter Core
files: short_tracebacks.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 263948
nosy: ebarry
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: patch review
status: open
title: Shrink recursive tracebacks
versions: Python 3.6
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file42561/short_tracebacks.patch

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