Yes, once I used it to print an 'enhanced stack backtrace'. Each time the site engine was crashing (not web2py, long ago) the stack trace was emailed to me along with all variables values that existed at all levels of the trace.
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 6:53 AM, GoldenTiger <[email protected]> wrote: > do you refer to module inspect? it's great for introspecting on live > objects and their source code > > On 27 ago, 03:44, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > > I discovered this: > > > > def f(name): > > import inspect > > c_frame = inspect.getouterframes(inspect.currentframe(), 1)[1][0] > > c_args, c_varargs, c_varkw, c_locals = > > inspect.getargvalues(c_frame) > > d = dict(c_locals) > > return d[name] > > > > def g(): > > a=5 > > print f('a') > > > > g() # prints 5 >
