Function format_exception

Lib/traceback.py:156–169

Format a stack trace and the exception information. The arguments have the same meaning as the corresponding arguments to print_exception(). The return value is a list of strings, each ending in a newline and some containing internal newlines. When these lines are concatenated and

(exc, /, value=_sentinel, tb=_sentinel, limit=None, \
                     chain=True, **kwargs)

def format_exception(exc, /, value=_sentinel, tb=_sentinel, limit=None, \
                     chain=True, **kwargs):
    """Format a stack trace and the exception information.

    The arguments have the same meaning as the corresponding arguments
    to print_exception().  The return value is a list of strings, each
    ending in a newline and some containing internal newlines.  When
    these lines are concatenated and printed, exactly the same text is
    printed as does print_exception().
    """
    colorize = kwargs.get("colorize", False)
    value, tb = _parse_value_tb(exc, value, tb)
    te = TracebackException(type(value), value, tb, limit=limit, compact=True)
    return list(te.format(chain=chain, colorize=colorize))


def format_exception_only(exc, /, value=_sentinel, *, show_group=False, **kwargs):