Improve Configurability of Global Variable Printing & Clickable Stack Trace Navigation

[aiyinyuedejustin]

Description

I recently started using traceback-with-variables and noticed some inconsistencies in behavior when using different methods to enable traceback enhancements. I would like to clarify whether these behaviors are intended and suggest an improvement for configuring global variable printing more conveniently.

Findings

1. Clickable Stack Trace Navigation

• When I import tb.a at the top of my script and run it with:

python my_script.py

I can Cmd+Click (or Ctrl+Click) on file paths in the traceback output to quickly navigate to the corresponding code in my terminal.

• However, if I only use:

traceback-with-variables my_script.py

without importing anything, the traceback is still enhanced, but the file paths are not clickable.

• Question: Is this expected behavior? If so, could it be documented more explicitly?

2. Global Variable Printing Behavior

• Running with:

traceback-with-variables my_script.py

prints global variables by default. But cannot click on it.

• Running with:

import tb.a

at the top and executing:

python my_script.py

does NOT print global variables (which is sometimes undesirable). But can click on it.

• The only way I found to enable global variable printing while still using python my_script.py so that I can click is to use:

from traceback_with_variables import global_print_exc
global_print_exc()

at the top of my script instead of import tb.a.

Suggestion

• The current method of configuring global variable printing is too complex. Sometimes I need global variables, and sometimes I don't, but right now the only way to configure this is by changing the import statements in my code.

• Proposal: Could we introduce a new alias, such as:

import tb.ag  # Equivalent to `import tb.a`, but enables global variable printing

• This would make it much easier to switch between "with globals" and "without globals" modes, without modifying multiple lines of code, while can click on the traceback to nevigate.

[andy-landy]

Thanks for bringing this. I never heard of terminals with anything clickable ;) I'll check possible differences in output