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From: Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>
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Subject: Re: Missing stack frames?
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Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> wrote:
>> I've instrumented one of my unit tests with a conditional
>> 'pdb.set_trace' in some circumstances (specifically, when a function is
>> called by a thread other than MainThread).
>
> I think the likelihood of this being an issue with interactive
> debugging and threads is sufficiently high that you should avoid
> putting the two together, at least until you can verify that the same
> problem occurs without that combination.

Is there a way to produce a stacktrace without using the interactive
debugger?


Best,
-Nikolaus

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