Guido van Rossum added the comment: Sorry, I missed the part where you said "we can't depend on PyPI".
There already is something in the stdlib that may be close enough to what you're looking for -- checkout cgitb.py. The following might even work: import cgitb cgitb.enable(format='text') That code is very old and primarily meant for CGI scripts (that shows how old it is!) but it still works. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22937> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com