New submission from Matthew Woodcraft: If I run my code using 'python -m' and there is an unhandled exception, the tracebacks include lines from runpy.py (and now sometimes from importlib._bootstrap) which don't provide useful information, and tend to overwhelm the valuable part of the traceback.
I suppose this is in some sense a regression from Python 2.4. echo fail > fail.py python3.3 -m fail python -m fail Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3.3/runpy.py", line 160, in _run_module_as_main "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name) File "/usr/lib/python3.3/runpy.py", line 73, in _run_code exec(code, run_globals) File "./fail.py", line 2, in <module> fail NameError: name 'fail' is not defined Here I think it would be better to omit the first two traceback entries. Syntax errors are worse: echo syntax error > fail.py python3.3 -m fail Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3.3/runpy.py", line 140, in _run_module_as_main mod_name, loader, code, fname = _get_module_details(mod_name) File "/usr/lib/python3.3/runpy.py", line 114, in _get_module_details code = loader.get_code(mod_name) File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 981, in get_code File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 313, in _call_with_frames_removed File "./fail.py", line 1 syntax error Here there are four traceback entries which could be omitted. ---------- messages: 172806 nosy: mattheww priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Tracebacks are unnecessarily verbose when using 'python -m' type: enhancement _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16217> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com