gh-96092: Fix traceback.walk_stack(None) skipping too many frames#129330
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As it says in its documentation, walk_stack was meant to just follow `f.f_back` like other functions in the traceback module. Instead it was previously doing `f.f_back.f_back` and then this changed to `f_back.f_back.f_back.f_back' in Python 3.11 breaking its behavior for external users. This happened because the walk_stack function never really had any good direct tests and its only consumer in the traceback module was `extract_stack` which passed the result into `StackSummary.extract`. As a generator, it was previously capturing the state of the stack when it was first iterated over, rather than the stack when `walk_stack` was called. Meaning when called inside the two method deep `extract` and `extract_stack` calls, two `f_back`s were needed. When 3.11 modified the sequence of calls in `extract`, two more `f_back`s were needed to make the tests happy. This changes the generator to capture the stack when `walk_stack` is called, rather than when it is first iterated over. Since this is technically a breaking change in behavior, there is a versionchanged to the documentation. In practice, this is unlikely to break anyone, you would have been needing to store the result of `walk_stack` and expecting it to change.
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+@pablogsal as a reviewer. This was a bug I accidentally introduced in PEP 657's implementation Finally getting around to fixing it. Technically the fix is a change in behavior itself but it is unlikely to break anyone, they would have had to store the result of walker = traceback.walk_stack(None)
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frames = list(walker)
# ^ Previously this would return the frames
# as of when the `list` was called.
# Now returns the frames where `traceback.walk_stack` was called.A quick search of traceback.walk_stack shows that most people either pass it into |
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Fixes #96092. Please see my comment in #99015 (comment) for more details on the root cause analysis of this issue.
This changes the
walk_stackgenerator to capture the stack whenwalk_stackis called, rather than when it is first iterated over. Since this is technically a breaking change in behavior, I added a versionchanged to the documentation. In practice, this is unlikely to break anyone, you would have been needing to store the result ofwalk_stackand expecting it to change.It also adds a direct test for what the innermost frame
walk_stackreturns is.📚 Documentation preview 📚: https://cpython-previews--129330.org.readthedocs.build/