Get exception description and stack trace which caused an exception, all as a string

I’ve seen a lot of posts about stack trace and exceptions in Python. But haven’t found what I need. I have a chunk of Python 2.7 code that may raise an exception. I would like to catch it and assign to a string its full description and the stack trace that caused the error (simply … Read more

How can I find the method that called the current method?

When logging in C#, how can I learn the name of the method that called the current method? I know all about System.Reflection.MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod(), but I want to go one step beneath this in the stack trace. I’ve considered parsing the stack trace, but I am hoping to find a cleaner more explicit way, something like … Read more

What is a stack trace, and how can I use it to debug my application errors?

Sometimes when I run my application it gives me an error that looks like: Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NullPointerException at com.example.myproject.Book.getTitle(Book.java:16) at com.example.myproject.Author.getBookTitles(Author.java:25) at com.example.myproject.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:14) People have referred to this as a “stack trace”. What is a stack trace? What can it tell me about the error that’s happening in my program? About this question … Read more