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41 lines
1.7 KiB
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\section{\module{cgitb} ---
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Traceback manager for CGI scripts}
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\declaremodule{standard}{cgitb}
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\modulesynopsis{Configurable traceback handler for CGI scripts.}
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\moduleauthor{Ka Ping Yee}{ping@lfw.org}
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\sectionauthor{Fred L. Drake, Jr.}{fdrake@acm.org}
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\index{CGI!tracebacks}
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\index{traceback!in CGI scripts}
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The \module{cgitb} module provides a special exception handler for CGI
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scripts. Using this module, an exception raised and left uncaught in
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a CGI script can be presented as colorized HTML in the user's Web
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browser. The options to the \function{enable()} function can be used
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to control whether the colorized traceback is presented and whether
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the traceback is logged to a file for later analysis.
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\begin{funcdesc}{enable}{\optional{display\optional{, logdir\optional{,
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context}}}}
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This function causes the \module{cgitb} module to take over the
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interpreters default handling for exceptions that propogate out of
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the top level of a script. The causes \module{cgitb} to set the
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value of \code{\refmodule{sys}.excepthook}.
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The optional argument \var{display} defaults to true and can be set
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to false to suppress sending the traceback to the browser.
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\var{logdir}, if given, should be a directory to cause tracebacks to
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be written to files there; by default tracebacks will not be written
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to files. \var{context} is the number of lines of context around
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the offending line in a traceback display; this defaults to
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\code{5}.
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\end{funcdesc}
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\begin{funcdesc}{handler}{\optional{info}}
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This function handles an exception using the default settings. This
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can be used when you've caught an exception and want to report it
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using \module{cgitb}, but need to continue processing.
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\end{funcdesc}
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