JUjunon·Oct 6, 2023
I did this a while back for Python:
https://GitHub.com/qix-/better-exceptions
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better-exceptions
Pretty and useful exceptions in Python, automatically.
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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5 sourcesReally wish they'd just go and add a way to replace better-exceptions[0]. I don't use it anymore and thus don't really like to maintain it these days, and would love to see it in mainline.
[0] https://GitHub.com/qix-/better-exceptions
In Python 3.11>And the stack trace was about three frames and discarded all the context - all I could see was that ActiveRecord was throwing a fit over somehow mysteriously receiving a large number somehow.
This is Python rather than Ruby, but my average debugging time and frequency of "impossible to figure out" bugs drastically decreased once I started using a traceback library that provides a lot of context to each stack frame.
It makes logs containing any raised exceptions much larger and more tedious to scroll through, but the benefits are more than worth it; especially for production services.
I use better-exceptions (https://github.com/Qix-/better-exceptions), but there are a bunch of other good libraries as well.
In Why bugs might feel “impossible”It would be nice to integrate the context functionality into https://github.com/Qix-/better-exceptions
In Show HN: Debugging-Friendly Tracebacks for PythonSomeone made Python exceptions “a little better”
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