On Feb 9, 2005, at 6:25 PM, Michael Hudson wrote:
"Phillip J. Eby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
At 08:20 PM 2/9/05 +0100, BJörn Lindqvist wrote:Does Skip's idea have any merit?
Yes, but not as a default behavior. Many people already consider the fact that tracebacks display file paths to be a potential security problem. If anything, the default traceback display should have less information, not more. (E.g., display module __name__ instead of the code's __file__).
Oh, come on. Making tracebacks less useful to protect people who accidentally spray them across the internet seems absurd. Would you like them not to show source, either?
On Mac OS X the paths to the files are so long as to make the tracebacks really ugly and *less* usable. I certainly wouldn't mind if __name__ showed up instead of __file__. I have a "pywhich" script that shows me the file given a name that I use:
(note that modulegraph.util.imp_find_module is like imp.find_module but it will walk the packages to find the actual module and it only returns the filename)
#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys, os
from modulegraph.util import imp_find_module
for module in sys.argv[1:]:
path,oext = os.path.splitext(imp_find_module(module)[1])
for ext in ('.py', oext):
if os.path.exists(path+ext):
print path+ext
break-bob
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