On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Simon Forman <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Dec 27 2008, 5:14 am, "Russell Keith-Magee" > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 2:32 AM, Fridrik Mar Jonsson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > I recently had an instance where it would have been really convenient >> > to see the error and a traceback in the ``runserver`` console instead >> > of just a single line telling me that the request returned a 500 >> > error. > > I just noticed this too. Sometime between 0.96.3 and 1.0 "./ > manage.py runserver" stops printing out tracebacks. The "--traceback" > and "-v" options do nothing.
This isn't entirely surprising. Between 0.96 and 1.0, manage.py received a major refactor. Unfortunately, the command line behavior of django-admin is one of those things that is very difficult to unit test, so it is quite easy for mistakes like this to slip in accidentally. If you're particularly enthused by the historical reasoning, you could search the Subversion history to find the revision at which the feature disappeared. 0.96 was tagged at r4810, so anywhere between there and now (r9772 as I write this) could be the cause. With a binary search, you should be able to find the offending revision in about a dozen steps. >> > For an optimistic moment I thought ``--traceback`` was a bit >> > promising, but then it turned out that it doesn't really seem to do >> > what I expected in the case of ``runserver``. I even considered >> > switching to e-mail tracebacks but ended up writing a client to mimic >> > the 3rd party tool's functionality instead. >> >> When I read this I went and had a look at the code, and it appears you >> are correct. ``--traceback`` exists as a top-level command option, but >> it doesn't appear to be exploited at all inrunserver. This actually >> surprised me - it seems like a reasonable suggestion for an >> improvement. Feel free to open this as a ticket (and if you're really >> adventurous, work on a patch :-) > > I can open a ticket, and even attempt a patch. How did this go away? > I'm curious. Magic elves. They conspired with the fairies :-) Seriously, I have no idea. I can't think of any reason it would be deliberate. Regardless of the cause, it would be nice to have this feature restored. Any patch would be gratefully accepted. Yours Russ Magee %-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
