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traceback --- Print or retrieve a stack traceback — Examples of Using the Module-Level Functions

This simple example implements a basic read-eval-print loop, similar to (but less useful than) the standard Python interactive interpreter loop.

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). This simple example implements a basic read-eval-print loop, similar to (but less useful than) the standard Python interactive interpreter loop. For a more complete implementation of the interpreter loop, refer to the code module. def run_user_code(envdir): source = input(">>> ") try: exec(source, envdir) except Exception: print("Exception in user code:") print("-"60) traceback.print_exc(file=sys.stdout) print("-"60) envdir = {} while True: run_user_code(envdir) The following example demonstrates the different ways to print and format the exception and traceback def lumberjack(): bright_side_of_life() def bright_side_of_life(): return tuple()[0] try: lumberjack() except IndexError as exc: print(" print_tb:") traceback.print_tb(exc.traceback, limit=1, file=sys.stdout) print(" print_exception:") traceback.print_exception(exc, limit=2, file=sys.stdout) print(" print_exc:") traceback.print_exc(limit=2, file=sys.stdout) print(" format_exc, first and last line:") formatted_lines = traceback.format_exc().splitlines() print(formatted_lines[0]) print(formatted_lines[-1]) print(" format_exception:") print(repr(traceback.format_exception(exc))) print(" extract_tb:") print(repr(traceback.extract_tb(exc.traceback))) print(" format_tb:") print(repr(traceback.format_tb(exc.traceback))) print(" tb_lineno:", exc.traceback.tb_lineno) The output for the example would look similar to this options: +NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE print_tb: File "", line 10, in lumberjack() Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```text *** print_exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<doctest...>", line 10, in <module> lumberjack() ``` Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```text IndexError: tuple index out of range *** print_exc: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<doctest...>", line 10, in <module> lumberjack() ``` … Attribution: Adapted from Python Documentation under PSF-2.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, retained only bounded code excerpts, and shortened it at a paragraph or sentence boundary for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.
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