Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> added the comment: Huh? Demonstration please, as the -m switch absolutely does display tracebacks when the call fails:
$ python -m timeit -s "raise RuntimeError" Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/timeit.py", line 298, in main x = t.timeit(number) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/timeit.py", line 194, in timeit timing = self.inner(it, self.timer) File "<timeit-src>", line 3, in inner raise RuntimeError RuntimeError The only tracebacks it suppresses are those for ImportError during the search process, which is deliberate: $ python -m missing /usr/bin/python: No module named missing It even avoids suppressing the traceback when the module is found and an import error occurs later: $ python -m timeit -s "import missing" Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/timeit.py", line 298, in main x = t.timeit(number) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/timeit.py", line 194, in timeit timing = self.inner(it, self.timer) File "<timeit-src>", line 3, in inner import missing ImportError: No module named missing ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14439> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com