Florent's DeadlockDebugger in turn builds on an external C threadframe module:
http://www.majid.info/mylos/stories/2004/06/10/threadframe.html
Folding the functionality of that (or similar functionality) into the core would, IMO, be a valuable addition for 2.5, and would make an excellent intro project for an aspiring contributor interested in how threads work in CPython (what this module does is conceptually simple). It belongs in the core because it's not safe to chase the tstate chain without holding pystate.c's internal head_mutex lock (holding the GIL isn't enough -- it's normal practice to call PyThreadState_Delete() while not holding the GIL).
I'd do it myself (and maybe I will anyway), but this really would make a good (finite; conceptually simple) project for someone who wants to gain Python developer experience.
Since I started this, I might as well finish it. I do have some Python developer experience (hey, I even voted for comp.lang.python back when...) but not in the core interpreter itself.
I suspect integrating this feature (let's call it sys._current_frames() for the sake of argument, although it probably belongs in the threads module) in the core is not going to be quite as trivial as you say, as there are potential memory leaks. If the function returns a dictionary, it should probably be a weak dict to avoid a circular reference between the frame of the thread that calls _current_frames and its locals that contain the returned dictionary. But that would also mean the references to other threads' frames are going to be weak, thus not allowing the current thread to inspect their locals and backtraces at will as those weak references may be broken.
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