[issue38197] Meaning of tracebacklimit differs between sys.tracebacklimit and traceback module

Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick added the comment: It's still inconsistent between the two ways to get a traceback, and the inconsistency is not documented. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue38197] Meaning of tracebacklimit differs between sys.tracebacklimit and traceback module

Irit Katriel added the comment: If you change your script to do sys.tracebacklimit = abs(limit) and run it with arg -3, then you get the output you expect: C:\Users\User\src\cpython>python.bat x.py -3 Running Release|Win32 interpreter... limit -3 from traceback module: Traceback (most recent

[issue38197] Meaning of tracebacklimit differs between sys.tracebacklimit and traceback module

New submission from Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick : The meaning of sys.tracebacklimit seems to be different than the meaning of the various limit parameters in the traceback module. One shows the top n stack frames, the other the bottom n. Is this intentional, and if yes, is that difference