Re: Minimising stack trace

From	Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Minimising stack trace
Organization	Decebal Computing
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Date	2015-05-16 15:49 +0200
Message-ID	<87382wfx8p.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> (permalink)

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Op Friday 15 May 2015 20:17 CEST schreef Cecil Westerhof:

> While playing with recursion I get:
> RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in comparison
>
> But then I get a very long stack trace. Is there a way to make this
> a lot shorter. Now I ‘lose’ interesting information because of the
> length of the stack trace.

I found something. I could use:
    import sys

    sys.tracebacklimit = 10

The output is different, but I find it useful enough.

-- 
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof

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Minimising stack trace Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-15 20:17 +0200
  Re: Minimising stack trace Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2015-05-15 12:04 -0700
    Re: Minimising stack trace Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> - 2015-05-15 14:14 -0500
    Re: Minimising stack trace Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-16 09:22 +0200
  Re: Minimising stack trace Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-05-15 21:41 +0200
    Re: Minimising stack trace Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-05-16 10:57 +1000
      Re: Minimising stack trace Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2015-05-15 18:24 -0700
        Re: Minimising stack trace Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-16 11:33 +1000
          Re: Minimising stack trace Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2015-05-15 18:37 -0700
        Re: Minimising stack trace Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-05-15 19:51 -0700
          Re: Minimising stack trace Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-05-15 19:59 -0700
          Re: Minimising stack trace Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-05-16 04:49 +0100
  Re: Minimising stack trace Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-16 15:49 +0200

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