Tim Peters wrote: > Back in: > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-March/051856.html > > I made a pitch for adding: > > sys._current_frames() > > to 2.5, which would return a dict mapping each thread's id to that > thread's current (Python) frame. As noted there, an extension module > exists along these lines that's used at least by the popular Zope > DeadlockDebugger product, but it's not possible to do it correctly in > an extension. The latter is why it needs to be in the core (so long > as it's in an extension, it risks segfaulting, because the core's > internal `head_mutex` lock isn't exposed). > > I forgot about this but was recently reminded. How much opposition > would there be to sneaking this into 2.5b2? It would consist of > adding a relatively simple new function, docs, and tests; since it > wouldn't _change_ any existing code, it would have a hard time > breaking anything that currently works.
If you just check it in, using an appropriate log message[1] I think nobody would object. <wink> Georg [1] Thinking of "Whitespace normalization"... _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
