Re: Minimising stack trace

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Date	Fri, 15 May 2015 14:14:07 -0500
Subject	Re: Minimising stack trace
From	Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
To	Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>
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A third alternative is to take a look at asyncore.compact_traceback.
That will only help modestly in Cecil's example, but I found it
helpful.

Skip

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> wrote:
> On Friday, May 15, 2015 at 2:50:12 PM UTC-4, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>> 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.
>
> There isn't a way to shorten the stack trace.  If you are losing
> information at the top because of your terminal window, you can
> likely increase the number of lines it will keep for you.
>
> Another option is to reduce the maximum stack depth, so that it
> is exceeded sooner, which produces shorter stack traces:
>
>     import sys;
>     sys.setrecursionlimit(50)
>
>
> --Ned.
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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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