Christian Kaula. Let the computer do it.

Today while happily hacking away at my Python code I found myself in the following situation: I needed the traceback of an exception while not wanting the whole app to exit because of the exception being raised.

Turns out there is a traceback module which in conjunction with the sys module allows to do some neat things with exceptions.

Have a look at this quick and dirty example:

try:
  foo

except NameError:
  import sys, traceback
  print traceback.print_tb(sys.exc_info()[2])

This code actually works and doesn't crash (meaning it doesn't do anything but not crash :P), but still prints a nice little traceback so you know on which line the exception occurred.

All this is very hacky of course - but for debugging purposes its mighty convenient.