Am Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:21:48 +0200 schrieb Michael Ströder:

> gregpinero@gmail.com wrote:
>> I'm running code via the "exec in context" statement within a much
>> larger program. What I would like to do is capture any possible
>> errors and show a pretty traceback just like the Python interactive
>> interpreter does, but only show the part of the traceback relating to
>> the code sent to exec.
>>
>> For example here is the code I'm using:
>>
>> try:
>> exec code
>> except Exception,Err:
>> traceback.print_exc()
>
> Guess what's argument limit is for. Excerpt from the Python docs:

Unfortunately traceback.print_exc(limit=N) trims the wrong end of the
traceback:

>>> def alpha(): beta()
....
>>> def beta(): gamma()
....
>>> def gamma(): 1/0
....
>>> try:
.... alpha()
.... except:
.... traceback.print_exc()
....
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 2, in <module>
File "<stdin>", line 1, in alpha
File "<stdin>", line 1, in beta
File "<stdin>", line 1, in gamma
ZeroDivisionError: integer division or modulo by zero
>>> try:
.... alpha()
.... except:
.... traceback.print_exc(limit=1)
....
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 2, in <module>
ZeroDivisionError: integer division or modulo by zero
>>>

Peter