hide_frames

Ever had nested wrappers (probably from many libraries) ... and your traceback look messy? There's just func(*args, **kwargs) everywhere!

Not anymore, using hide_frames, you can (ironically) use a simple decorator to hide your ugly frames!

Installation

pip install hide_frames

Example

Suppose we have a wrapper:

def useless(f):
    def wrapped_function(*args, **kwargs):
        return f(*args, **kwargs)
    return wrapped_function

If we have a function that raises an exception and we wrap it:

@useless
def oops():
    raise Exception

We would get an ugly traceback if we call it:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "myfile.py", line 10, in <module>
    oops()
  File "myfile.py", line 3, in wrapped_function
    return f(*args, **kwargs)      # <--- ugly
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "myfile.py", line 8, in oops
    raise Exception
Exception

We can use the hide_frame decorator to modify our useless decorator:

def useless(f):
    @hide_frame      # <-- important
    def wrapped_function(*args, **kwargs):
        return f(*args, **kwargs)
    return wrapped_function

Now, our traceback looks like this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "myfile.py", line 13, in <module>
    oops()
  File "myfile.py", line 11, in oops
    raise Exception
Exception

Hooray! No more f(*args, **kwargs) !

The best part: it works with any number of decorators!

If you have more than one frame that needs to be hidden, use hide_nframes()

(There's another simple example in test.py)