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Expose signal-safe way to get a structured stacktrace #148925

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Feature or enhancement

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#145559 proposes a signal-safe mechanism to print backtraces. This is useful for human debugging, but not ideal for tools because it requires parsing human-readable text. For example, a crash-tracker may wish to export and analyze structured backtraces. Similarly, a profiler can benefit from the ability to generate structure stack-traces in pure C, without needing to reason about the safety of reentering the python interpreter.

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

I have already discussed this feature proposal on Discourse

Links to previous discussion of this feature:

https://discuss.python.org/t/pure-c-structured-traceback/106872/8

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