Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.pionier.net.pl!feed.xsnews.nl!border03.ams.xsnews.nl!feeder04.ams.xsnews.nl!abp002.ams.xsnews.nl!frontend-F09-06.ams.news.kpn.nl From: Cecil Westerhof Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Minimising stack trace Organization: Decebal Computing References: <871tih66z5.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> X-Face: "(y8cC@tg_12{">GF'UXTW]FHI2wMiZNrnf'1EFQ&O#$m:f#O7+7}kR,v+Pti8=Vi/Z"g^?b"E X-Homepage: http://www.decebal.nl/ Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 15:49:42 +0200 Message-ID: <87382wfx8p.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ouYDw69epIRZYy9wnwZyFOqMLvQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 20 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.207.62.244 X-Trace: 1431784820 news.kpn.nl 20456 81.207.62.244@kpn/81.207.62.244:52520 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:90735 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