traceback

plural tracebacks

1. countableuncountablecomputingDetermination of origin; the process of tracing something back to its source.
2. countableuncountablecomputingA stack trace (in some programming languages)

   ... which appears in the top line of the traceback, looking for the point at which the system is likely to have become corrupted . The ability to read and use tracebacks is a skill no MOO administrator should be without .

   2001, Cynthia A. Haynes, Jan Rune Holmevik, High Wired: On the Design, Use, and Theory of Educational MOOs, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 155

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   In programs where functions can be called from multiple places , the call stack can help you determine which call led to the error . Python displays the traceback whenever a raised exception goes unhandled . But you can also obtain it[…]

   2019 November 12, Al Sweigart, Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, 2nd Edition: Practical Programming for Total Beginners, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 252

   This is a single-stage traceback. It begins by announcing itself as a traceback and then gives a location in line 1 of "<stdin>" (i.e., your typing, or standard input). It also specifies any method that the exception is raised in: in[…]

   2010 March 10, Tim Hall, J-P Stacey, Python 3 for Absolute Beginners, Apress, →ISBN, page 235