One of my goals in writing Rich was to render really nice Python tracebacks. And now that feature has landed.

I've never found Python tracebacks to be a great debugging aid beyond telling me what the exception was, and where it occurred. In a recent update to Rich, I've tried to refresh the humble traceback to give enough context to diagnose errors before switching back to the editor.

Here's an example of a rich traceback:

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