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Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 11:33:10 +1000
Subject: Re: Minimising stack trace
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> wrote:
> On Friday, May 15, 2015 at 8:57:53 PM UTC-4, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> On Sat, 16 May 2015 05:41 am, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>>
>> > 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.
>> >
>> > <http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>
>>
>> There ought to be a website that explains how to give smart answers.
>
> Or one that explains how to be kind to those that don't know
> the ropes yet.  Though pointing impatient experts at a
> website probably won't get them to change any more than
> brusquely pointing newbs at a website will.

You mean like this?

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#idp64834912

(Not sure whether you knew and were hinting, or didn't know that
that's explicitly mentioned.)

ChrisA