python traceback - performance problems

Question

we have a python script that uses a c library to call some low level functions. Because of code structure reasons we want to store the stack trace/call stack before each c call.

To do this we use traceback.extract_stack() to extract the call stack of python. When an exception occurs later on, we use traceback.format_list(abc) on each element to format and print the stack trace.

The problem is that the function extract_stack is too slow. I slows down our code from 1.7 seconds to 11 seconds.

Is there any function to store the stack trace in order to be able to use/print it later? The stacktrace getter must be very fast. The format function can be slow, this is no problem.

Example:

Stack Trace:
  - LXScript: '_LXS:TOOL:RUNLX'
      File "_LXS:TOOL:RUNLX", line 13, in <module>
      File "lxs", line 1, in <module>
  - UNIFACE ACTIVATE: 'ACTQREC_SVC' 'EXECLXSRP'
  - LXScript: '_DATATRT:ACTQREC:EXECUTE@Main:run'
      File "_LXS:TOOL:RUNLX", line 13, in <module>
      File "lxs", line 1, in <module>
      File "<string>", line 63, in run
      File "<string>", line 97, in __doAll
      File "<string>", line 127, in __do
      File "_DATATRT:ACTQREC:EXECUTE", line 7, in do
  - UNIFACE ACTIVATE: 'ACTQ_CSVC' 'EXECBYREC'
  - LXScript: 'TOOL:ACTQ:SYNLAB_DATA@Main:runOnBeforeExec'
      File "TOOL:ACTQ:SYNLAB_DATA", line 1, in <module>
    ImportError: No module named 'localls'

Answer 1

I resolved the problem!!!

We can use stt_obj = sys._getframe().f_back to get the "<frame>?" And then we can use estt_obj = traceback.extract_stack(f=stt_obj) and traceback.format_list(estt_obj) to get the stack trace as string list.