Getting stack trace from a running Python application

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Published on 2008-09-25T08:06:06Z Indexed on 2010/04/02 23:33 UTC
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I have this Python application that gets stuck from time to time and I can't find out where.

Is there any way to signal Python interpreter to show you the exact code that he's running (somekind of stacktrace on-the-fly)?

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