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IPython/ultraTB.py

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 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 """
 ultraTB.py -- Spice up your tracebacks!
 
 * ColorTB
 I've always found it a bit hard to visually parse tracebacks in Python.  The
 ColorTB class is a solution to that problem.  It colors the different parts of a
 traceback in a manner similar to what you would expect from a syntax-highlighting
 text editor.
 
 Installation instructions for ColorTB:
     import sys,ultraTB
     sys.excepthook = ultraTB.ColorTB()
 
 * VerboseTB  
 I've also included a port of Ka-Ping Yee's "cgitb.py" that produces all kinds
 of useful info when a traceback occurs.  Ping originally had it spit out HTML
 and intended it for CGI programmers, but why should they have all the fun?  I
 altered it to spit out colored text to the terminal.  It's a bit overwhelming,
 but kind of neat, and maybe useful for long-running programs that you believe
 are bug-free.  If a crash *does* occur in that type of program you want details.
 Give it a shot--you'll love it or you'll hate it.
 
 Note:
 
   The Verbose mode prints the variables currently visible where the exception
   happened (shortening their strings if too long). This can potentially be
   very slow, if you happen to have a huge data structure whose string
   representation is complex to compute. Your computer may appear to freeze for
   a while with cpu usage at 100%. If this occurs, you can cancel the traceback
   with Ctrl-C (maybe hitting it more than once).
 
   If you encounter this kind of situation often, you may want to use the
   Verbose_novars mode instead of the regular Verbose, which avoids formatting
   variables (but otherwise includes the information and context given by
   Verbose).
   
 
 Installation instructions for ColorTB:
     import sys,ultraTB
     sys.excepthook = ultraTB.VerboseTB()
 
 Note:  Much of the code in this module was lifted verbatim from the standard
 library module 'traceback.py' and Ka-Ping Yee's 'cgitb.py'.
 
 * Color schemes
 The colors are defined in the class TBTools through the use of the
 ColorSchemeTable class. Currently the following exist:
 
   - NoColor: allows all of this module to be used in any terminal (the color
   escapes are just dummy blank strings).
 
   - Linux: is meant to look good in a terminal like the Linux console (black
   or very dark background).
 
   - LightBG: similar to Linux but swaps dark/light colors to be more readable
   in light background terminals.
 
 You can implement other color schemes easily, the syntax is fairly
 self-explanatory. Please send back new schemes you develop to the author for
 possible inclusion in future releases.
 
-$Id: ultraTB.py 1956 2006-11-30 05:22:31Z fperez $"""
+$Id: ultraTB.py 2027 2007-01-19 00:55:09Z fperez $"""
 
 #*****************************************************************************
 #       Copyright (C) 2001 Nathaniel Gray <[e-mail]>
 #       Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Fernando Perez <[e-mail]>
 #
 #  Distributed under the terms of the BSD License.  The full license is in
 #  the file COPYING, distributed as part of this software.
 #*****************************************************************************
 
 from IPython import Release
 __author__  = '%s <%s>\n%s <%s>' % (Release.authors['Nathan']+
                                     Release.authors['Fernando'])
 __license__ = Release.license
 
 # Required modules
 import inspect
 import keyword
 import linecache
 import os
 import pydoc
 import string
 import sys
 import time
 import tokenize
 import traceback
 import types
 
 # IPython's own modules
 # Modified pdb which doesn't damage IPython's readline handling
 from IPython import Debugger
 from IPython.ipstruct import Struct
 from IPython.excolors import ExceptionColors
 from IPython.genutils import Term,uniq_stable,error,info
 
 # Globals
 # amount of space to put line numbers before verbose tracebacks
 INDENT_SIZE = 8
 
 #---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Code begins
 
 # Utility functions
 def inspect_error():
     """Print a message about internal inspect errors.
 
     These are unfortunately quite common."""
     
     error('Internal Python error in the inspect module.\n'
           'Below is the traceback from this internal error.\n')
 
 def _fixed_getinnerframes(etb, context=1,tb_offset=0):
     import linecache
     LNUM_POS, LINES_POS, INDEX_POS =  2, 4, 5
 
     records  = inspect.getinnerframes(etb, context)
 
     # If the error is at the console, don't build any context, since it would
     # otherwise produce 5 blank lines printed out (there is no file at the
     # console)
     rec_check = records[tb_offset:]
     try:
         rname = rec_check[0][1]
         if rname == '<ipython console>' or rname.endswith('<string>'):
             return rec_check
     except IndexError:
         pass
 
     aux = traceback.extract_tb(etb)
     assert len(records) == len(aux)
     for i, (file, lnum, _, _) in zip(range(len(records)), aux):
         maybeStart = lnum-1 - context//2
         start =  max(maybeStart, 0)
         end   = start + context
         lines = linecache.getlines(file)[start:end]
         # pad with empty lines if necessary
         if maybeStart < 0:
             lines = (['\n'] * -maybeStart) + lines
         if len(lines) < context:
             lines += ['\n'] * (context - len(lines))
         buf = list(records[i])
         buf[LNUM_POS] = lnum
         buf[INDEX_POS] = lnum - 1 - start
         buf[LINES_POS] = lines
         records[i] = tuple(buf)
     return records[tb_offset:]
 
 # Helper function -- largely belongs to VerboseTB, but we need the same
 # functionality to produce a pseudo verbose TB for SyntaxErrors, so that they
 # can be recognized properly by ipython.el's py-traceback-line-re
 # (SyntaxErrors have to be treated specially because they have no traceback)
 def _formatTracebackLines(lnum, index, lines, Colors, lvals=None):
     numbers_width = INDENT_SIZE - 1
     res = []
     i = lnum - index
     for line in lines:
         if i == lnum:
             # This is the line with the error
             pad = numbers_width - len(str(i))
             if pad >= 3:
                 marker = '-'*(pad-3) + '-> '
             elif pad == 2:
                 marker = '> '
             elif pad == 1:
                 marker = '>'
             else:
                 marker = ''
             num = marker + str(i)
             line = '%s%s%s %s%s' %(Colors.linenoEm, num, 
                                    Colors.line, line, Colors.Normal)
         else:
             num = '%*s' % (numbers_width,i)
             line = '%s%s%s %s' %(Colors.lineno, num, 
                                  Colors.Normal, line)
 
         res.append(line)
         if lvals and i == lnum:
             res.append(lvals + '\n')
         i = i + 1
     return res
 
 #---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Module classes
 class TBTools:
     """Basic tools used by all traceback printer classes."""
 
     def __init__(self,color_scheme = 'NoColor',call_pdb=False):
         # Whether to call the interactive pdb debugger after printing
         # tracebacks or not
         self.call_pdb = call_pdb
 
         # Create color table
         self.color_scheme_table = ExceptionColors 
 
         self.set_colors(color_scheme)
         self.old_scheme = color_scheme  # save initial value for toggles
 
         if call_pdb:
             self.pdb = Debugger.Pdb(self.color_scheme_table.active_scheme_name)
         else:
             self.pdb = None
 
     def set_colors(self,*args,**kw):
         """Shorthand access to the color table scheme selector method."""
 
         # Set own color table
         self.color_scheme_table.set_active_scheme(*args,**kw)
         # for convenience, set Colors to the active scheme
         self.Colors = self.color_scheme_table.active_colors
         # Also set colors of debugger
         if hasattr(self,'pdb') and self.pdb is not None:
             self.pdb.set_colors(*args,**kw)
 
     def color_toggle(self):
         """Toggle between the currently active color scheme and NoColor."""
         
         if self.color_scheme_table.active_scheme_name == 'NoColor':
             self.color_scheme_table.set_active_scheme(self.old_scheme)
             self.Colors = self.color_scheme_table.active_colors
         else:
             self.old_scheme = self.color_scheme_table.active_scheme_name
             self.color_scheme_table.set_active_scheme('NoColor')
             self.Colors = self.color_scheme_table.active_colors
 
 #---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 class ListTB(TBTools):
     """Print traceback information from a traceback list, with optional color.
         
     Calling: requires 3 arguments:
       (etype, evalue, elist)
     as would be obtained by:
       etype, evalue, tb = sys.exc_info()
       if tb:
         elist = traceback.extract_tb(tb)
       else:
         elist = None
 
     It can thus be used by programs which need to process the traceback before
     printing (such as console replacements based on the code module from the
     standard library).
 
     Because they are meant to be called without a full traceback (only a
     list), instances of this class can't call the interactive pdb debugger."""
 
     def __init__(self,color_scheme = 'NoColor'):
         TBTools.__init__(self,color_scheme = color_scheme,call_pdb=0)
         
     def __call__(self, etype, value, elist):
+        Term.cout.flush()
+        Term.cerr.flush()
         print >> Term.cerr, self.text(etype,value,elist)
 
     def text(self,etype, value, elist,context=5):
         """Return a color formatted string with the traceback info."""
 
         Colors = self.Colors
         out_string = ['%s%s%s\n' % (Colors.topline,'-'*60,Colors.Normal)]
         if elist:
             out_string.append('Traceback %s(most recent call last)%s:' % \
                                 (Colors.normalEm, Colors.Normal) + '\n')
             out_string.extend(self._format_list(elist))
         lines = self._format_exception_only(etype, value)
         for line in lines[:-1]:
             out_string.append(" "+line)
         out_string.append(lines[-1])
         return ''.join(out_string)
 
     def _format_list(self, extracted_list):
         """Format a list of traceback entry tuples for printing.
 
         Given a list of tuples as returned by extract_tb() or
         extract_stack(), return a list of strings ready for printing.
         Each string in the resulting list corresponds to the item with the
         same index in the argument list.  Each string ends in a newline;
         the strings may contain internal newlines as well, for those items
         whose source text line is not None.
         
         Lifted almost verbatim from traceback.py
         """
 
         Colors = self.Colors
         list = []
         for filename, lineno, name, line in extracted_list[:-1]:
             item = '  File %s"%s"%s, line %s%d%s, in %s%s%s\n' % \
                     (Colors.filename, filename, Colors.Normal, 
                      Colors.lineno, lineno, Colors.Normal,
                      Colors.name, name, Colors.Normal)
             if line:
                 item = item + '    %s\n' % line.strip()
             list.append(item)
         # Emphasize the last entry
         filename, lineno, name, line = extracted_list[-1]
         item = '%s  File %s"%s"%s, line %s%d%s, in %s%s%s%s\n' % \
                 (Colors.normalEm,
                  Colors.filenameEm, filename, Colors.normalEm,
                  Colors.linenoEm, lineno, Colors.normalEm,
                  Colors.nameEm, name, Colors.normalEm,
                  Colors.Normal)
         if line:
             item = item + '%s    %s%s\n' % (Colors.line, line.strip(),
                                             Colors.Normal)
         list.append(item)
         return list
         
     def _format_exception_only(self, etype, value):
         """Format the exception part of a traceback.
 
         The arguments are the exception type and value such as given by
         sys.exc_info()[:2]. The return value is a list of strings, each ending
         in a newline.  Normally, the list contains a single string; however,
         for SyntaxError exceptions, it contains several lines that (when
         printed) display detailed information about where the syntax error
         occurred.  The message indicating which exception occurred is the
         always last string in the list.
         
         Also lifted nearly verbatim from traceback.py
         """
         
         Colors = self.Colors
         list = []
         if type(etype) == types.ClassType:
             stype = Colors.excName + etype.__name__ + Colors.Normal
         else:
             stype = etype  # String exceptions don't get special coloring
         if value is None:
             list.append( str(stype) + '\n')
         else:
             if etype is SyntaxError:
                 try:
                     msg, (filename, lineno, offset, line) = value
                 except:
                     pass
                 else:
                     #print 'filename is',filename  # dbg
                     if not filename: filename = "<string>"
                     list.append('%s  File %s"%s"%s, line %s%d%s\n' % \
                             (Colors.normalEm,
                              Colors.filenameEm, filename, Colors.normalEm,
                              Colors.linenoEm, lineno, Colors.Normal  ))
                     if line is not None:
                         i = 0
                         while i < len(line) and line[i].isspace():
                             i = i+1
                         list.append('%s    %s%s\n' % (Colors.line,
                                                       line.strip(), 
                                                       Colors.Normal))
                         if offset is not None:
                             s = '    '
                             for c in line[i:offset-1]:
                                 if c.isspace():
                                     s = s + c
                                 else:
                                     s = s + ' '
                             list.append('%s%s^%s\n' % (Colors.caret, s,
                                                        Colors.Normal) )
                         value = msg
             s = self._some_str(value)
             if s:
                 list.append('%s%s:%s %s\n' % (str(stype), Colors.excName,
                                               Colors.Normal, s))
             else:
                 list.append('%s\n' % str(stype))
         return list
 
     def _some_str(self, value):
         # Lifted from traceback.py
         try:
             return str(value)
         except:
             return '<unprintable %s object>' % type(value).__name__
 
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 class VerboseTB(TBTools):
     """A port of Ka-Ping Yee's cgitb.py module that outputs color text instead
     of HTML.  Requires inspect and pydoc.  Crazy, man.
 
     Modified version which optionally strips the topmost entries from the
     traceback, to be used with alternate interpreters (because their own code
     would appear in the traceback)."""
 
     def __init__(self,color_scheme = 'Linux',tb_offset=0,long_header=0,
                  call_pdb = 0, include_vars=1):
         """Specify traceback offset, headers and color scheme.
 
         Define how many frames to drop from the tracebacks. Calling it with
         tb_offset=1 allows use of this handler in interpreters which will have
         their own code at the top of the traceback (VerboseTB will first
         remove that frame before printing the traceback info)."""
         TBTools.__init__(self,color_scheme=color_scheme,call_pdb=call_pdb)
         self.tb_offset = tb_offset
         self.long_header = long_header
         self.include_vars = include_vars
 
     def text(self, etype, evalue, etb, context=5):
         """Return a nice text document describing the traceback."""
 
         # some locals
         Colors        = self.Colors   # just a shorthand + quicker name lookup
         ColorsNormal  = Colors.Normal  # used a lot
         indent        = ' '*INDENT_SIZE
         exc           = '%s%s%s' % (Colors.excName, str(etype), ColorsNormal)
         em_normal     = '%s\n%s%s' % (Colors.valEm, indent,ColorsNormal)
         undefined     = '%sundefined%s' % (Colors.em, ColorsNormal)
 
         # some internal-use functions
         def text_repr(value):
             """Hopefully pretty robust repr equivalent."""
             # this is pretty horrible but should always return *something*
             try:
                 return pydoc.text.repr(value)
             except KeyboardInterrupt:
                 raise
             except:
                 try:
                     return repr(value)
                 except KeyboardInterrupt:
                     raise
                 except:
                     try:
                         # all still in an except block so we catch
                         # getattr raising
                         name = getattr(value, '__name__', None)
                         if name:
                             # ick, recursion
                             return text_repr(name)
                         klass = getattr(value, '__class__', None)
                         if klass:
                             return '%s instance' % text_repr(klass)
                     except KeyboardInterrupt:
                         raise
                     except:
                         return 'UNRECOVERABLE REPR FAILURE'
         def eqrepr(value, repr=text_repr): return '=%s' % repr(value)
         def nullrepr(value, repr=text_repr): return ''
 
         # meat of the code begins
         if type(etype) is types.ClassType:
             etype = etype.__name__
 
         if self.long_header:
             # Header with the exception type, python version, and date
             pyver = 'Python ' + string.split(sys.version)[0] + ': ' + sys.executable
             date = time.ctime(time.time())
             
             head = '%s%s%s\n%s%s%s\n%s' % (Colors.topline, '-'*75, ColorsNormal,
                                            exc, ' '*(75-len(str(etype))-len(pyver)),
                                            pyver, string.rjust(date, 75) )
             head += "\nA problem occured executing Python code.  Here is the sequence of function"\
                     "\ncalls leading up to the error, with the most recent (innermost) call last."
         else:
             # Simplified header
             head = '%s%s%s\n%s%s' % (Colors.topline, '-'*75, ColorsNormal,exc,
                                      string.rjust('Traceback (most recent call last)',
                                                   75 - len(str(etype)) ) )
         frames = []
         # Flush cache before calling inspect.  This helps alleviate some of the
         # problems with python 2.3's inspect.py.
         linecache.checkcache()
         # Drop topmost frames if requested
         try:
             # Try the default getinnerframes and Alex's: Alex's fixes some
             # problems, but it generates empty tracebacks for console errors
             # (5 blanks lines) where none should be returned.
             #records = inspect.getinnerframes(etb, context)[self.tb_offset:]
             #print 'python records:', records # dbg
             records = _fixed_getinnerframes(etb, context,self.tb_offset)
             #print 'alex   records:', records # dbg
         except:
 
             # FIXME: I've been getting many crash reports from python 2.3
             # users, traceable to inspect.py.  If I can find a small test-case
             # to reproduce this, I should either write a better workaround or
             # file a bug report against inspect (if that's the real problem).
             # So far, I haven't been able to find an isolated example to
             # reproduce the problem.
             inspect_error()
             traceback.print_exc(file=Term.cerr)
             info('\nUnfortunately, your original traceback can not be constructed.\n')
             return ''
 
         # build some color string templates outside these nested loops
         tpl_link       = '%s%%s%s' % (Colors.filenameEm,ColorsNormal)
         tpl_call       = 'in %s%%s%s%%s%s' % (Colors.vName, Colors.valEm,
                                               ColorsNormal)
         tpl_call_fail  = 'in %s%%s%s(***failed resolving arguments***)%s' % \
                          (Colors.vName, Colors.valEm, ColorsNormal)
         tpl_local_var  = '%s%%s%s' % (Colors.vName, ColorsNormal)
         tpl_global_var = '%sglobal%s %s%%s%s' % (Colors.em, ColorsNormal,
                                                  Colors.vName, ColorsNormal)
         tpl_name_val   = '%%s %s= %%s%s' % (Colors.valEm, ColorsNormal)
         tpl_line       = '%s%%s%s %%s' % (Colors.lineno, ColorsNormal)
         tpl_line_em    = '%s%%s%s %%s%s' % (Colors.linenoEm,Colors.line,
                                             ColorsNormal)
 
         # now, loop over all records printing context and info
         abspath = os.path.abspath
         for frame, file, lnum, func, lines, index in records:
             #print '*** record:',file,lnum,func,lines,index  # dbg
             try:
                 file = file and abspath(file) or '?'
             except OSError:
                 # if file is '<console>' or something not in the filesystem,
                 # the abspath call will throw an OSError.  Just ignore it and
                 # keep the original file string.
                 pass
             link = tpl_link % file
             try:
                 args, varargs, varkw, locals = inspect.getargvalues(frame)
             except:
                 # This can happen due to a bug in python2.3.  We should be
                 # able to remove this try/except when 2.4 becomes a
                 # requirement.  Bug details at http://python.org/sf/1005466
                 inspect_error()
                 traceback.print_exc(file=Term.cerr)
                 info("\nIPython's exception reporting continues...\n")
                 
             if func == '?':
                 call = ''
             else:
                 # Decide whether to include variable details or not
                 var_repr = self.include_vars and eqrepr or nullrepr
                 try:
                     call = tpl_call % (func,inspect.formatargvalues(args,
                                                 varargs, varkw,
                                                 locals,formatvalue=var_repr))
                 except KeyError:
                     # Very odd crash from inspect.formatargvalues().  The
                     # scenario under which it appeared was a call to
                     # view(array,scale) in NumTut.view.view(), where scale had
                     # been defined as a scalar (it should be a tuple). Somehow
                     # inspect messes up resolving the argument list of view()
                     # and barfs out. At some point I should dig into this one
                     # and file a bug report about it.
                     inspect_error()
                     traceback.print_exc(file=Term.cerr)
                     info("\nIPython's exception reporting continues...\n")
                     call = tpl_call_fail % func
 
             # Initialize a list of names on the current line, which the
             # tokenizer below will populate.
             names = []
 
             def tokeneater(token_type, token, start, end, line):
                 """Stateful tokeneater which builds dotted names.
 
                 The list of names it appends to (from the enclosing scope) can
                 contain repeated composite names.  This is unavoidable, since
                 there is no way to disambguate partial dotted structures until
                 the full list is known.  The caller is responsible for pruning
                 the final list of duplicates before using it."""
                 
                 # build composite names
                 if token == '.':
                     try:
                         names[-1] += '.'
                         # store state so the next token is added for x.y.z names
                         tokeneater.name_cont = True
                         return
                     except IndexError:
                         pass
                 if token_type == tokenize.NAME and token not in keyword.kwlist:
                     if tokeneater.name_cont:
                         # Dotted names
                         names[-1] += token
                         tokeneater.name_cont = False
                     else:
                         # Regular new names.  We append everything, the caller
                         # will be responsible for pruning the list later.  It's
                         # very tricky to try to prune as we go, b/c composite
                         # names can fool us.  The pruning at the end is easy
                         # to do (or the caller can print a list with repeated
                         # names if so desired.
                         names.append(token)
                 elif token_type == tokenize.NEWLINE:
                     raise IndexError
             # we need to store a bit of state in the tokenizer to build
             # dotted names
             tokeneater.name_cont = False
 
             def linereader(file=file, lnum=[lnum], getline=linecache.getline):
                 line = getline(file, lnum[0])
                 lnum[0] += 1
                 return line
 
             # Build the list of names on this line of code where the exception
             # occurred.
             try:
                 # This builds the names list in-place by capturing it from the
                 # enclosing scope.
                 tokenize.tokenize(linereader, tokeneater)
             except IndexError:
                 # signals exit of tokenizer
                 pass
             except tokenize.TokenError,msg:
                 _m = ("An unexpected error occurred while tokenizing input\n"
                       "The following traceback may be corrupted or invalid\n"
                       "The error message is: %s\n" % msg)
                 error(_m)
             
             # prune names list of duplicates, but keep the right order
             unique_names = uniq_stable(names)
 
             # Start loop over vars
             lvals = []
             if self.include_vars:
                 for name_full in unique_names:
                     name_base = name_full.split('.',1)[0]
                     if name_base in frame.f_code.co_varnames:
                         if locals.has_key(name_base):
                             try:
                                 value = repr(eval(name_full,locals))
                             except:
                                 value = undefined
                         else:
                             value = undefined
                         name = tpl_local_var % name_full
                     else:
                         if frame.f_globals.has_key(name_base):
                             try:
                                 value = repr(eval(name_full,frame.f_globals))
                             except:
                                 value = undefined
                         else:
                             value = undefined
                         name = tpl_global_var % name_full
                     lvals.append(tpl_name_val % (name,value))
             if lvals:
                 lvals = '%s%s' % (indent,em_normal.join(lvals))
             else:
                 lvals = ''
 
             level = '%s %s\n' % (link,call)
 
             if index is None:
                 frames.append(level)
             else:
                 frames.append('%s%s' % (level,''.join(
                     _formatTracebackLines(lnum,index,lines,self.Colors,lvals))))
 
         # Get (safely) a string form of the exception info
         try:
             etype_str,evalue_str = map(str,(etype,evalue))
         except:
             # User exception is improperly defined.
             etype,evalue = str,sys.exc_info()[:2]
             etype_str,evalue_str = map(str,(etype,evalue))
         # ... and format it
         exception = ['%s%s%s: %s' % (Colors.excName, etype_str,
                                      ColorsNormal, evalue_str)]
         if type(evalue) is types.InstanceType:
             try:
                 names = [w for w in dir(evalue) if isinstance(w, basestring)]
             except:
                 # Every now and then, an object with funny inernals blows up
                 # when dir() is called on it.  We do the best we can to report
                 # the problem and continue
                 _m = '%sException reporting error (object with broken dir())%s:'
                 exception.append(_m % (Colors.excName,ColorsNormal))
                 etype_str,evalue_str = map(str,sys.exc_info()[:2])
                 exception.append('%s%s%s: %s' % (Colors.excName,etype_str,
                                      ColorsNormal, evalue_str))
                 names = []
             for name in names:
                 value = text_repr(getattr(evalue, name))
                 exception.append('\n%s%s = %s' % (indent, name, value))
         # return all our info assembled as a single string
         return '%s\n\n%s\n%s' % (head,'\n'.join(frames),''.join(exception[0]) )
 
     def debugger(self,force=False):
         """Call up the pdb debugger if desired, always clean up the tb
         reference.
 
         Keywords:
 
           - force(False): by default, this routine checks the instance call_pdb
           flag and does not actually invoke the debugger if the flag is false.
           The 'force' option forces the debugger to activate even if the flag
           is false.
 
         If the call_pdb flag is set, the pdb interactive debugger is
         invoked. In all cases, the self.tb reference to the current traceback
         is deleted to prevent lingering references which hamper memory
         management.
 
         Note that each call to pdb() does an 'import readline', so if your app
         requires a special setup for the readline completers, you'll have to
         fix that by hand after invoking the exception handler."""
 
         if force or self.call_pdb:
             if self.pdb is None:
                 self.pdb = Debugger.Pdb(
                     self.color_scheme_table.active_scheme_name)
             # the system displayhook may have changed, restore the original
             # for pdb
             dhook = sys.displayhook
             sys.displayhook = sys.__displayhook__
             self.pdb.reset()
             # Find the right frame so we don't pop up inside ipython itself
             if hasattr(self,'tb'):
                 etb = self.tb
             else:
                 etb = self.tb = sys.last_traceback
             while self.tb.tb_next is not None:
                 self.tb = self.tb.tb_next
             try:
                 if etb and etb.tb_next:
                     etb = etb.tb_next
                 self.pdb.botframe = etb.tb_frame
                 self.pdb.interaction(self.tb.tb_frame, self.tb)
             finally:
                 sys.displayhook = dhook
             
         if hasattr(self,'tb'):
             del self.tb
 
     def handler(self, info=None):
         (etype, evalue, etb) = info or sys.exc_info()
         self.tb = etb
+        Term.cout.flush()
+        Term.cerr.flush()
         print >> Term.cerr, self.text(etype, evalue, etb)
 
     # Changed so an instance can just be called as VerboseTB_inst() and print
     # out the right info on its own.
     def __call__(self, etype=None, evalue=None, etb=None):
         """This hook can replace sys.excepthook (for Python 2.1 or higher)."""
         if etb is None:
             self.handler()
         else:
             self.handler((etype, evalue, etb))
         self.debugger()
 
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 class FormattedTB(VerboseTB,ListTB):
     """Subclass ListTB but allow calling with a traceback.
 
     It can thus be used as a sys.excepthook for Python > 2.1.
 
     Also adds 'Context' and 'Verbose' modes, not available in ListTB.
 
     Allows a tb_offset to be specified. This is useful for situations where
     one needs to remove a number of topmost frames from the traceback (such as
     occurs with python programs that themselves execute other python code,
     like Python shells).  """
     
     def __init__(self, mode = 'Plain', color_scheme='Linux',
                  tb_offset = 0,long_header=0,call_pdb=0,include_vars=0):
 
         # NEVER change the order of this list. Put new modes at the end:
         self.valid_modes = ['Plain','Context','Verbose']
         self.verbose_modes = self.valid_modes[1:3]
 
         VerboseTB.__init__(self,color_scheme,tb_offset,long_header,
                            call_pdb=call_pdb,include_vars=include_vars)
         self.set_mode(mode)
         
     def _extract_tb(self,tb):
         if tb:
             return traceback.extract_tb(tb)
         else:
             return None
 
     def text(self, etype, value, tb,context=5,mode=None):
         """Return formatted traceback.
 
         If the optional mode parameter is given, it overrides the current
         mode."""
 
         if mode is None:
             mode = self.mode
         if mode in self.verbose_modes:
             # verbose modes need a full traceback
             return VerboseTB.text(self,etype, value, tb,context=5)
         else:
             # We must check the source cache because otherwise we can print
             # out-of-date source code.
             linecache.checkcache()
             # Now we can extract and format the exception
             elist = self._extract_tb(tb)
             if len(elist) > self.tb_offset:
                 del elist[:self.tb_offset]
             return ListTB.text(self,etype,value,elist)
 
     def set_mode(self,mode=None):
         """Switch to the desired mode.
 
         If mode is not specified, cycles through the available modes."""
 
         if not mode:
             new_idx = ( self.valid_modes.index(self.mode) + 1 ) % \
                       len(self.valid_modes)
             self.mode = self.valid_modes[new_idx]
         elif mode not in self.valid_modes:
             raise ValueError, 'Unrecognized mode in FormattedTB: <'+mode+'>\n'\
                   'Valid modes: '+str(self.valid_modes)
         else:
             self.mode = mode
         # include variable details only in 'Verbose' mode
         self.include_vars = (self.mode == self.valid_modes[2])
 
     # some convenient shorcuts
     def plain(self):
         self.set_mode(self.valid_modes[0])
 
     def context(self):
         self.set_mode(self.valid_modes[1])
 
     def verbose(self):
         self.set_mode(self.valid_modes[2])
 
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 class AutoFormattedTB(FormattedTB):
     """A traceback printer which can be called on the fly.
 
     It will find out about exceptions by itself.
 
     A brief example:
     
     AutoTB = AutoFormattedTB(mode = 'Verbose',color_scheme='Linux')
     try:
       ...
     except:
       AutoTB()  # or AutoTB(out=logfile) where logfile is an open file object
     """
     def __call__(self,etype=None,evalue=None,etb=None,
                  out=None,tb_offset=None):
         """Print out a formatted exception traceback.
 
         Optional arguments:
           - out: an open file-like object to direct output to.
 
           - tb_offset: the number of frames to skip over in the stack, on a
           per-call basis (this overrides temporarily the instance's tb_offset
           given at initialization time.  """
         
         if out is None:
             out = Term.cerr
+        Term.cout.flush()
+        out.flush()
         if tb_offset is not None:
             tb_offset, self.tb_offset = self.tb_offset, tb_offset
             print >> out, self.text(etype, evalue, etb)
             self.tb_offset = tb_offset
         else:
             print >> out, self.text(etype, evalue, etb)
         self.debugger()
 
     def text(self,etype=None,value=None,tb=None,context=5,mode=None):
         if etype is None:
             etype,value,tb = sys.exc_info()
         self.tb = tb
         return FormattedTB.text(self,etype,value,tb,context=5,mode=mode)
 
 #---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # A simple class to preserve Nathan's original functionality.
 class ColorTB(FormattedTB):
     """Shorthand to initialize a FormattedTB in Linux colors mode."""
     def __init__(self,color_scheme='Linux',call_pdb=0):
         FormattedTB.__init__(self,color_scheme=color_scheme,
                              call_pdb=call_pdb)
 
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # module testing (minimal)
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     def spam(c, (d, e)):
         x = c + d
         y = c * d
         foo(x, y)
 
     def foo(a, b, bar=1):
         eggs(a, b + bar)
 
     def eggs(f, g, z=globals()):
         h = f + g
         i = f - g
         return h / i
 
     print ''
     print '*** Before ***'
     try:
         print spam(1, (2, 3))
     except:
         traceback.print_exc()
     print ''
     
     handler = ColorTB()
     print '*** ColorTB ***'
     try:
         print spam(1, (2, 3))
     except:
         apply(handler, sys.exc_info() )
     print ''
     
     handler = VerboseTB()
     print '*** VerboseTB ***'
     try:
         print spam(1, (2, 3))
     except:
         apply(handler, sys.exc_info() )
     print ''