Fwd: [ANN]New project: PyCrash

[Robert Olson]

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>Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 22:13:13 +0000 (UTC)
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>The project I'm going to present is a Python module, named PyCrash,
>which can be very useful in exploiting bugs of Python written programs.
>PyCrash is a crash handler that handles uncaught exception during
>program execution and collects information about the program context.
>PyCrash can be very useful in report bug information, because the
>programmer can easily analyse the program execution context of the
>crashed application.
>Major information collected by PyCrash in the crash dump is:
>- Information about operating system, Python and Python Standard
>   Library version and general information about the program that is
>   crashed (e.g., program name and version, time at witch program
>   started and ended, and so on);
>- Information about the uncaught exception, like the exception type,
>   the context (namely method name) in which the exception occurred and
>   the exception value;
>- General information about variables state;
>- Information about the stack of each thread, like the list of stack
>   frames, the variables value in each stack frame, and so on;
>- General information about source code, like variable and function
>   position in source file that can be useful for the programmer to find
>   quickly bugs in source tree;
>
>The format of the crash dump file generated by PyCrash is XML, so the
>programmer can easily read this file to understand why the program is
>crashed. Currently, PyCrash needs Python 2.3 or higher.
>
>Actually, PyCrash is still in beta, and the latest version is 0.2-beta2.
>
>I'm also working to a graphical tool, named PyCrashViewer, that shows
>PyCrash core file in a graphical manner, so the user can quickly and
>easily exploits bugs. You can see a screenshot at:
>
>http://pycrash.sourceforge.net/images/shot.png
>
>For further information, please visit PyCrash home page at
>
>http://pycrash.sourceforge.net
>
>Thanks in advance to who will send me comments and suggests about this
>project.
>
>Carmine I.D. Noviello
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