when / what

If you can't run docker or you're in the situation that you need to run your python exception-collector under windows, then this might be useful.

requirements

• requests
• flask

e.g.:

pip install requests Flask

how

First change the line with db_file in it in server.py to include the path to where the server application should store its database. E.g. db_file = 'c:/exceptionpickler/data.db'

Then, to install as a windows service:

python server.py --startup auto install
sc start ExceptionPickler

In your code, add:

import include_me

Then in each try...except, add:

include_me.transmit_exception(e)

(assuming that you capture the exception into a variable called e).

Also make sure to change the exceptionpickler_server line in include_me.py to let it point to the exceptionpickler-server (see the flask invocation above).

system wide

You can also install the capturer system-wide. For that, copy sitecustomize.py into the python search-path. Do not forget to adapt the exceptionpickler_server line in that file. To see which paths are searched by python, invoke this in the python command line interpreter:

import sys
print(sys.path)

results

You can see the collected tracebacks by pointing your web-browser to http://ip-adres-of-server:4009/

Written by Folkert van Heusden for Grover Underdogs.