traceback as string

[John Hunter]

What is the best way to get the traceback as a string. I tried

def exception_to_str(s = None):

sh = StringIO.StringIO()
if s is not None: print >>sh, s
traceback.print_stack(sh)
return sh.getvalue()
but got

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/jdhunter/seizure/python/eegdb/eegview/eegview.py", line 944, in on_menuFileOpen_activate
msg = exception_to_str('Could not read data:')
File "/hunter/jdhunter/python/projects/jdh/jdh/cbook.py", line 707, in exception_to_str
traceback.print_stack(sh)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/traceback.py", line 235, in print_stack
print_list(extract_stack(f, limit), file)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/traceback.py", line 266, in extract_stack
lineno = f.f_lineno

Thanks!
John Hunter

[Colin Brown]

"John Hunter" <jd******@ace.bsd.uchicago.edu> wrote in message
news:ma*************************************@pytho n.org...

What is the best way to get the traceback as a string.

I define the following module "Excepts.py" for logging exceptions in daemon
processes:

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import sys,traceback

def error():
tb =
traceback.format_exception(sys.exc_info()[0],sys.exc_info()[1],sys.exc_info(
)[2])
return tb[len(tb)-1].replace('\n','')

def errorstack():
return
''.join(traceback.format_exception(sys.exc_info()[0],sys.exc_info()[1],sys.e
xc_info()[2]))
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Colin Brown
PyNZ

[Stephen Ferg]

I haven't been using this function for very long, but it seems to work.

You pass it the exception object, and it returns a string.

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def exception_format(e):
"""Convert an exception object into a string,
complete with stack trace info, suitable for display.
"""
import traceback
info = "".join(traceback.format_tb(sys.exc_info()[2]))
return str(e) + "\n\n" + info

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Here's an example of how to use it.

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try:
main1()
except Exception, e:
print exception_format(e)

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[John J. Lee]

st***@ferg.org (Stephen Ferg) writes:
[...]

try:
main1()
except Exception, e:
print exception_format(e)

[...]

Just a semi-random warning for anybody as stupid as me: "finally:"
blocks do not handle exceptions, so don't expect things like using the
traceback module to work there:

try:
main1()
finally:
print exception_format(e) # WRONG
I spent a long time tracing through the Python source code trying to
track down a non-existent bug in a C extension, thanks to this
misconception. :-(
John