[TIP] new (python 2.6) fn: gettrace

[Laura Creighton]

I think that Andrew Dalke, who is cc'd to this note, has already done
a bunch of work which would be very useful to you.

Laura

message I am replying to, for Andrew's benefit.

In a message of Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:03:49 MST, "m h" writes:
>On Jan 23, 2008 8:55 PM, Titus Brown <titus at caltech.edu> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 03:34:16PM -0700, m h wrote:
>> ->
>> -> If you want to do path coverage you need to be able to mark every pa
>th
>> -> through the code.
>> -> The current method of line coverage doesn't allow one to trace short
>> -> circuiting in boolean operations.
>>
>> OK, that's what I thought you meant -- but (to be pedantic) describing
>> a feature request as a "bug" is a bit confusing ;).
>
>No problem.  Hope I didn't come off as discounting the work done by
>the current coverage tools at all.  I'm grateful for what we currently
>have.
>
>>
>> I don't know how hard this would be to add to Py 2.6 or Py 3k, but
>> regardless my guess is that you would need to do it yourself. You
>> *could* propose it as a GSoC project...
>>
>> Hmm, or we could sit down and try to hack it out at PyCon.  That might
>> be a fun way to spend an evening or two!
>>
>
>I'd be up to that (will be at pycon).  Let me put out some feelers on
>py-dev and perhaps a pypy mailing list to see if I(we) can start off
>of existing work.  I really don't want to write a python compiler, but
>am assuming tracing at that level won't be supported in cpython, but
>perhaps might in pypy....
>
>cheers,
>
>-matt
>
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