summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/traceback.rst4
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_traceback.py8
-rw-r--r--Lib/traceback.py3
-rw-r--r--Misc/ACKS1
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-07-08-17-49-12.gh-issue-87822.F9dzkf.rst1
5 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/traceback.rst b/Doc/library/traceback.rst
index a8412cc..8cb6af9 100644
--- a/Doc/library/traceback.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/traceback.rst
@@ -341,6 +341,10 @@ capture data for later printing in a lightweight fashion.
local variables in each :class:`FrameSummary` are captured as object
representations.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.12
+ Exceptions raised from :func:`repr` on a local variable (when
+ *capture_locals* is ``True``) are no longer propagated to the caller.
+
.. classmethod:: from_list(a_list)
Construct a :class:`StackSummary` object from a supplied list of
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_traceback.py b/Lib/test/test_traceback.py
index f4161fb..602bd2c 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_traceback.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_traceback.py
@@ -2279,6 +2279,9 @@ class TestStack(unittest.TestCase):
f' File "{__file__}", line {lno}, in f\n 1/0\n'
)
+class Unrepresentable:
+ def __repr__(self) -> str:
+ raise Exception("Unrepresentable")
class TestTracebackException(unittest.TestCase):
@@ -2546,12 +2549,13 @@ class TestTracebackException(unittest.TestCase):
linecache.updatecache('/foo.py', globals())
e = Exception("uh oh")
c = test_code('/foo.py', 'method')
- f = test_frame(c, globals(), {'something': 1, 'other': 'string'})
+ f = test_frame(c, globals(), {'something': 1, 'other': 'string', 'unrepresentable': Unrepresentable()})
tb = test_tb(f, 6, None, 0)
exc = traceback.TracebackException(
Exception, e, tb, capture_locals=True)
self.assertEqual(
- exc.stack[0].locals, {'something': '1', 'other': "'string'"})
+ exc.stack[0].locals,
+ {'something': '1', 'other': "'string'", 'unrepresentable': '<local repr() failed>'})
def test_no_locals(self):
linecache.updatecache('/foo.py', globals())
diff --git a/Lib/traceback.py b/Lib/traceback.py
index 55f8080..b1a5fd0 100644
--- a/Lib/traceback.py
+++ b/Lib/traceback.py
@@ -279,7 +279,8 @@ class FrameSummary:
self._line = line
if lookup_line:
self.line
- self.locals = {k: repr(v) for k, v in locals.items()} if locals else None
+ self.locals = {k: _safe_string(v, 'local', func=repr)
+ for k, v in locals.items()} if locals else None
self.end_lineno = end_lineno
self.colno = colno
self.end_colno = end_colno
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index b634041..32475f8 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -1590,6 +1590,7 @@ Ed Schouten
Scott Schram
Robin Schreiber
Chad J. Schroeder
+Simon-Martin Schroeder
Christian Schubert
Sam Schulenburg
Andreas Schwab
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-07-08-17-49-12.gh-issue-87822.F9dzkf.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-07-08-17-49-12.gh-issue-87822.F9dzkf.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7b27f5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-07-08-17-49-12.gh-issue-87822.F9dzkf.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+When called with ``capture_locals=True``, the :mod:`traceback` module functions swallow exceptions raised from calls to ``repr()`` on local variables of frames. This is in order to prioritize the original exception over rendering errors. An indication of the failure is printed in place of the missing value. (Patch by Simon-Martin Schroeder).