Instantly search your Python error messages on the web.
Project description
Tracestack lets you search your latest Python error message on Stackoverflow or Google, with a single keystroke.
Features
Integrate tracestack into your code in seconds, or run it from the command line
Post-mortem mode
REPL mode
Compatible with Python 2 and 3
Can search for answers on:
Google, limited to stackoverflow.com (default)
Google, searching the entire web
StackOverflow’s own search engine
Installation
pip install tracestack
Uses and Examples
Do a post-mortem autopsy of your last exception …
>>> 1 / 0 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<console>", line 1, in <module> ZeroDivisionError: integer division or modulo by zero >>> tracestack.pm() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<console>", line 1, in <module> ZeroDivisionError: integer division or modulo by zero Hit spacebar to search this error message on Stack Overflow (using Google):
… or catch all future exceptions …
>>> tracestack.enable() >>> 1 / 0 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<console>", line 1, in <module> ZeroDivisionError: integer division or modulo by zero Hit spacebar to search this error message on Stack Overflow (using Google): >>> tracestack.disable()
… or catch exceptions in only one function …
from tracestack import trace >>> @trace >>> def divide_by_zero(): 1 / 0
… or in any Python script run from the command line …
$ tracestack manage.py runserver
… or in a read-evaluate-print loop …
$ tracestack Python 2.7.6 (default, Sep 9 2014, 15:04:36) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.39)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. (TracestackConsole) >>> 1 / 0
Options
usage: tracestack [-h] [-s] [-e ENGINE] [SCRIPT] [ARGUMENTS [ARGUMENTS ...]] instantly search your Python error messages on the web positional arguments: SCRIPT the Python script ARGUMENTS any arguments to the script optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit -s, --skip skip the prompt and immediately search each exception -e ENGINE, --engine ENGINE the search engine to use: 'default': Google limited to stackoverflow.com, 'google': full web search on Google, 'stackoverflow': StackOverflow site search
In addition to being used on the command line, any of these arguments can be passed to the pm, enable, and trace functions:
>>> 1/0 >>> tracestack.pm(skip=True) # immediately runs search based on last exception >>> tracestack.enable(engine="google") >>> 1/0 >>> tracestack.trace(engine="stackoverflow") >>> def divide_by_zero(): ... 1/0
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