It's all very old C code that's deeply intertwined with interpreter internals. Who knows what kind of assumptions are made by some of the C code consuming frames and tracebacks...
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Xavier Morel <python-...@masklinn.net>wrote: > On 2014-03-06, at 19:32 , Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > > But inspect is in the stdlib. Surely changing inspect.py is less > controversial than amending the semantics of frame objects. > > I've no idea, I'm just giving a case where I could have used the ability > to create traceback objects even without the ability to create stack > frames (changing the stdlib may also be an option, though I'd hope the > explicit type checks were put in there for a reason) > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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