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1 """Extract, format and print information about Python stack traces."""
3 import linecache
4 import sys
5 import types
7 __all__ = ['extract_stack', 'extract_tb', 'format_exception',
8 'format_exception_only', 'format_list', 'format_stack',
9 'format_tb', 'print_exc', 'format_exc', 'print_exception',
10 'print_last', 'print_stack', 'print_tb', 'tb_lineno']
12 def _print(file, str='', terminator='\n'):
13 file.write(str+terminator)
16 def print_list(extracted_list, file=None):
17 """Print the list of tuples as returned by extract_tb() or
18 extract_stack() as a formatted stack trace to the given file."""
19 if file is None:
20 file = sys.stderr
21 for filename, lineno, name, line in extracted_list:
22 _print(file,
23 ' File "%s", line %d, in %s' % (filename,lineno,name))
24 if line:
25 _print(file, ' %s' % line.strip())
27 def format_list(extracted_list):
28 """Format a list of traceback entry tuples for printing.
30 Given a list of tuples as returned by extract_tb() or
31 extract_stack(), return a list of strings ready for printing.
32 Each string in the resulting list corresponds to the item with the
33 same index in the argument list. Each string ends in a newline;
34 the strings may contain internal newlines as well, for those items
35 whose source text line is not None.
36 """
37 list = []
38 for filename, lineno, name, line in extracted_list:
39 item = ' File "%s", line %d, in %s\n' % (filename,lineno,name)
40 if line:
41 item = item + ' %s\n' % line.strip()
42 list.append(item)
43 return list
46 def print_tb(tb, limit=None, file=None):
47 """Print up to 'limit' stack trace entries from the traceback 'tb'.
49 If 'limit' is omitted or None, all entries are printed. If 'file'
50 is omitted or None, the output goes to sys.stderr; otherwise
51 'file' should be an open file or file-like object with a write()
52 method.
53 """
54 if file is None:
55 file = sys.stderr
56 if limit is None:
57 if hasattr(sys, 'tracebacklimit'):
58 limit = sys.tracebacklimit
59 n = 0
60 while tb is not None and (limit is None or n < limit):
61 f = tb.tb_frame
62 lineno = tb.tb_lineno
63 co = f.f_code
64 filename = co.co_filename
65 name = co.co_name
66 _print(file,
67 ' File "%s", line %d, in %s' % (filename, lineno, name))
68 linecache.checkcache(filename)
69 line = linecache.getline(filename, lineno, f.f_globals)
70 if line: _print(file, ' ' + line.strip())
71 tb = tb.tb_next
72 n = n+1
74 def format_tb(tb, limit = None):
75 """A shorthand for 'format_list(extract_stack(f, limit))."""
76 return format_list(extract_tb(tb, limit))
78 def extract_tb(tb, limit = None):
79 """Return list of up to limit pre-processed entries from traceback.
81 This is useful for alternate formatting of stack traces. If
82 'limit' is omitted or None, all entries are extracted. A
83 pre-processed stack trace entry is a quadruple (filename, line
84 number, function name, text) representing the information that is
85 usually printed for a stack trace. The text is a string with
86 leading and trailing whitespace stripped; if the source is not
87 available it is None.
88 """
89 if limit is None:
90 if hasattr(sys, 'tracebacklimit'):
91 limit = sys.tracebacklimit
92 list = []
93 n = 0
94 while tb is not None and (limit is None or n < limit):
95 f = tb.tb_frame
96 lineno = tb.tb_lineno
97 co = f.f_code
98 filename = co.co_filename
99 name = co.co_name
100 linecache.checkcache(filename)
101 line = linecache.getline(filename, lineno, f.f_globals)
102 if line: line = line.strip()
103 else: line = None
104 list.append((filename, lineno, name, line))
105 tb = tb.tb_next
106 n = n+1
107 return list
110 def print_exception(etype, value, tb, limit=None, file=None):
111 """Print exception up to 'limit' stack trace entries from 'tb' to 'file'.
113 This differs from print_tb() in the following ways: (1) if
114 traceback is not None, it prints a header "Traceback (most recent
115 call last):"; (2) it prints the exception type and value after the
116 stack trace; (3) if type is SyntaxError and value has the
117 appropriate format, it prints the line where the syntax error
118 occurred with a caret on the next line indicating the approximate
119 position of the error.
121 if file is None:
122 file = sys.stderr
123 if tb:
124 _print(file, 'Traceback (most recent call last):')
125 print_tb(tb, limit, file)
126 lines = format_exception_only(etype, value)
127 for line in lines:
128 _print(file, line, '')
130 def format_exception(etype, value, tb, limit = None):
131 """Format a stack trace and the exception information.
133 The arguments have the same meaning as the corresponding arguments
134 to print_exception(). The return value is a list of strings, each
135 ending in a newline and some containing internal newlines. When
136 these lines are concatenated and printed, exactly the same text is
137 printed as does print_exception().
139 if tb:
140 list = ['Traceback (most recent call last):\n']
141 list = list + format_tb(tb, limit)
142 else:
143 list = []
144 list = list + format_exception_only(etype, value)
145 return list
147 def format_exception_only(etype, value):
148 """Format the exception part of a traceback.
150 The arguments are the exception type and value such as given by
151 sys.last_type and sys.last_value. The return value is a list of
152 strings, each ending in a newline.
154 Normally, the list contains a single string; however, for
155 SyntaxError exceptions, it contains several lines that (when
156 printed) display detailed information about where the syntax
157 error occurred.
159 The message indicating which exception occurred is always the last
160 string in the list.
164 # An instance should not have a meaningful value parameter, but
165 # sometimes does, particularly for string exceptions, such as
166 # >>> raise string1, string2 # deprecated
168 # Clear these out first because issubtype(string1, SyntaxError)
169 # would throw another exception and mask the original problem.
170 if (isinstance(etype, BaseException) or
171 isinstance(etype, types.InstanceType) or
172 etype is None or type(etype) is str):
173 return [_format_final_exc_line(etype, value)]
175 stype = etype.__name__
177 if not issubclass(etype, SyntaxError):
178 return [_format_final_exc_line(stype, value)]
180 # It was a syntax error; show exactly where the problem was found.
181 lines = []
182 try:
183 msg, (filename, lineno, offset, badline) = value.args
184 except Exception:
185 pass
186 else:
187 filename = filename or "<string>"
188 lines.append(' File "%s", line %d\n' % (filename, lineno))
189 if badline is not None:
190 lines.append(' %s\n' % badline.strip())
191 if offset is not None:
192 caretspace = badline.rstrip('\n')[:offset].lstrip()
193 # non-space whitespace (likes tabs) must be kept for alignment
194 caretspace = ((c.isspace() and c or ' ') for c in caretspace)
195 # only three spaces to account for offset1 == pos 0
196 lines.append(' %s^\n' % ''.join(caretspace))
197 value = msg
199 lines.append(_format_final_exc_line(stype, value))
200 return lines
202 def _format_final_exc_line(etype, value):
203 """Return a list of a single line -- normal case for format_exception_only"""
204 valuestr = _some_str(value)
205 if value is None or not valuestr:
206 line = "%s\n" % etype
207 else:
208 line = "%s: %s\n" % (etype, valuestr)
209 return line
211 def _some_str(value):
212 try:
213 return str(value)
214 except Exception:
215 pass
216 try:
217 value = unicode(value)
218 return value.encode("ascii", "backslashreplace")
219 except Exception:
220 pass
221 return '<unprintable %s object>' % type(value).__name__
224 def print_exc(limit=None, file=None):
225 """Shorthand for 'print_exception(sys.exc_type, sys.exc_value, sys.exc_traceback, limit, file)'.
226 (In fact, it uses sys.exc_info() to retrieve the same information
227 in a thread-safe way.)"""
228 if file is None:
229 file = sys.stderr
230 try:
231 etype, value, tb = sys.exc_info()
232 print_exception(etype, value, tb, limit, file)
233 finally:
234 etype = value = tb = None
237 def format_exc(limit=None):
238 """Like print_exc() but return a string."""
239 try:
240 etype, value, tb = sys.exc_info()
241 return ''.join(format_exception(etype, value, tb, limit))
242 finally:
243 etype = value = tb = None
246 def print_last(limit=None, file=None):
247 """This is a shorthand for 'print_exception(sys.last_type,
248 sys.last_value, sys.last_traceback, limit, file)'."""
249 if not hasattr(sys, "last_type"):
250 raise ValueError("no last exception")
251 if file is None:
252 file = sys.stderr
253 print_exception(sys.last_type, sys.last_value, sys.last_traceback,
254 limit, file)
257 def print_stack(f=None, limit=None, file=None):
258 """Print a stack trace from its invocation point.
260 The optional 'f' argument can be used to specify an alternate
261 stack frame at which to start. The optional 'limit' and 'file'
262 arguments have the same meaning as for print_exception().
264 if f is None:
265 try:
266 raise ZeroDivisionError
267 except ZeroDivisionError:
268 f = sys.exc_info()[2].tb_frame.f_back
269 print_list(extract_stack(f, limit), file)
271 def format_stack(f=None, limit=None):
272 """Shorthand for 'format_list(extract_stack(f, limit))'."""
273 if f is None:
274 try:
275 raise ZeroDivisionError
276 except ZeroDivisionError:
277 f = sys.exc_info()[2].tb_frame.f_back
278 return format_list(extract_stack(f, limit))
280 def extract_stack(f=None, limit = None):
281 """Extract the raw traceback from the current stack frame.
283 The return value has the same format as for extract_tb(). The
284 optional 'f' and 'limit' arguments have the same meaning as for
285 print_stack(). Each item in the list is a quadruple (filename,
286 line number, function name, text), and the entries are in order
287 from oldest to newest stack frame.
289 if f is None:
290 try:
291 raise ZeroDivisionError
292 except ZeroDivisionError:
293 f = sys.exc_info()[2].tb_frame.f_back
294 if limit is None:
295 if hasattr(sys, 'tracebacklimit'):
296 limit = sys.tracebacklimit
297 list = []
298 n = 0
299 while f is not None and (limit is None or n < limit):
300 lineno = f.f_lineno
301 co = f.f_code
302 filename = co.co_filename
303 name = co.co_name
304 linecache.checkcache(filename)
305 line = linecache.getline(filename, lineno, f.f_globals)
306 if line: line = line.strip()
307 else: line = None
308 list.append((filename, lineno, name, line))
309 f = f.f_back
310 n = n+1
311 list.reverse()
312 return list
314 def tb_lineno(tb):
315 """Calculate correct line number of traceback given in tb.
317 Obsolete in 2.3.
319 return tb.tb_lineno