On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Jan Urbański <wulc...@wulczer.org> wrote:
> On 24/02/11 14:10, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> On tor, 2010-12-23 at 14:56 +0100, Jan Urbański wrote:
>>> For errors originating from Python exceptions add the traceback as the
>>> message detail. The patch tries to mimick Python's traceback.py module
>>> behaviour as close as possible, icluding interleaving stack frames
>>> with source code lines in the detail message. Any Python developer
>>> should instantly recognize these kind of error reporting, it looks
>>> almost the same as an error in the interactive Python shell.
>>
>> I think the traceback should go into the CONTEXT part of the error.  The
>> context message that's already there is now redundant with the
>> traceback.
>>
>> You could even call errcontext() multiple times to build up the
>> traceback, but maybe that's not necessary.
>
> Hm, perhaps, I put it in the details, because it sounded like the place
> to put information that is not that important, but still helpful. It's
> kind of natural to think of the traceback as the detail of the error
> message. But if you prefer context, I'm fine with that. You want me to
> update the patch to put the traceback in the context?

I don't see a response to this question from Peter, but I read his
email to indicate that he was hoping you'd rework along these lines.

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