Possible integrations with better-exceptions

[jnoortheen]

Is it possible to use better-exceptions ?.

It is better to see the local state of variables upon failing. It helps to fixing it quickly.
Or there is any way to catch the exceptions as a pytest plugin and use this library to format the exception traceback?

[pytestbot]

GitMate.io thinks possibly related issues are #664 (Assertions about expected exceptions documentation possible code error), #3144 (Exit exception), #1122 (Better trace reporting for chained exceptions), #1293 (Better default colours), and #2491 (import_plugin hides exception source).

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

@jnoortheen as far as i understood pytest already does somehing comparable with its traceback, and with the -l option you can get all locals

[jnoortheen]

Yes that is right. But it returns only the locals of last frame. This library will show the locals in all the frames/function calls up to the start. It is not perfect but highly helpful debugging.
is it possible to catch the exception using any plugin, so I can pass it to this library?

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

pytest has various hooks to interact with the exception, i believe the make report hook is the perfect place to grab the exception info and pass it on to the lib

[jnoortheen]

That is looks like a good place to start. I will check that out.