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Diffstat (limited to 'devel/py-tblib/pkg-descr')
| -rw-r--r-- | devel/py-tblib/pkg-descr | 21 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/devel/py-tblib/pkg-descr b/devel/py-tblib/pkg-descr index b2b23b7c681f..5d6a1ca95ad9 100644 --- a/devel/py-tblib/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/py-tblib/pkg-descr @@ -1,5 +1,16 @@ -Pickle tracebacks and raise exceptions with pickled tracebacks in -different processes. This allows better error handling when running -code over multiple processes (imagine multiprocessing, billiard, -futures, celery etc). -Parse traceback strings and raise with the parsed tracebacks. +Serialization library for Exceptions and Tracebacks. + +It allows you to: +- Pickle tracebacks and raise exceptions with pickled tracebacks in different + processes. This allows better error handling when running code over multiple + processes (imagine multiprocessing, billiard, futures, celery etc). +- Create traceback objects from strings (the from_string method). No pickling is + used. +- Serialize tracebacks to/from plain dicts (the from_dict and to_dict methods). + No pickling is used. +- Raise the tracebacks created from the aforementioned sources. +- Pickle an Exception together with its traceback and exception chain (raise ... + from ...) (Python 3 only) + +Again, note that using the pickle support is completely optional. You are solely +responsible for security problems should you decide to use the pickle support. |