excepthook doesn't give exact line number

[Hari Sekhon]

Hi,

I'm wondering if anyone can please help me on figuring out a better way
of doing an excepthook. I have a script which is using an excepthook to
catch any uncaught exceptions - there usually aren't any except when I
am messing with the code, like right now

The problem is that the excepthook gives the line of the topmost called
function rather that the actual line that generated the error the way
you get it with a normal traceback.


import sys, traceback

def myexcepthook(type,value,tb):
<do something>

exception_message = ( "\nLine no %s: %s - %s\n"
"\nStack Trace:\n\n%s\n" %
(tb.tb_lineno,type,value,str(traceback.print_exc(2))) )

<send me an email etc....>

sys.excepthook = myexcepthook

<now do some work....>



So the tb object that is passed into the function gives the tb.tb_lineno
as a line right near the end where the original topmost called function
happens. This is a bit useless to me since I don't want to go looking
for the exception manually through the entire code.

As you can see from my example, I have already used the traceback module
which I usually use to give the normal traceback printout via
traceback.print_exc(). Here it doesn't seem to work, it always give
"None", likely because the excepthook has taken it or something.

Any guiding wisdom from the masters out there?

Much appreciated, thanks for reading.

-h

 

[Peter Otten]

The problem is that the excepthook gives the line of the topmost called
function rather that the actual line that generated the error the way
you get it with a normal traceback.

A look into the traceback module shows that tracebacks are stored as a
linked list. Here's a way to get hold of its tail:

def tbiter(tb):
while tb is not None:
yield tb
tb = tb.tb_next

def last(items):
for item in items:
pass
return item

# example usage
def myexcepthook(type, value, tb):
tb_tail = last(tbiter(tb))
print tb_tail.tb_lineno

Peter