tb-go

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Traceback go.

Go to lines in a traceback from the command-line.

Warning: this is vibe coded - but will likely get less so over time.

Motivation

I have been doing vibe code recently and using a full editor feels a bit heavy weight (another window to be aware of). So I am doing more things at the command-line with vim. But clickable tracebacks are really nice so I an adding this the shell.

Installation

You can install tb-go with pipx.

pipx install tb-go

Usage

You can run tb-go and paste a traceback into it (on linux middle click is your friend here).

Alternatively you can use it as a wrapper with tb-go python script.py

Alternatives and prior work

Python provides programmatic handlers for tracebacks. You could use one of these rather than parsing erorrs.

Many IDEs have this feature. I have implemented it in emacs with compile mode.

Django has clickable tracebacks.

About me

I am @readwithai. I create tools for reading, research and agency sometimes using the markdown editor Obsidian.

I also create a stream of tools that are related to carrying out my work. You may be interested in some of these tools.

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