Hi Andreas,

A good improvement.   There's still a minor bug with IPython and moving up the stacks with C-c -.  In the demo1.py example, pressing C-c - repeatedly goes up the stack until the 

----> 1 demo1.f()

line is reached, at which point string-match says "wrong-type-argument stringp nil"; here's the backtrace:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
  string-match(".+.pyc" nil)
  (if (string-match ".+.pyc" file) (progn (setq file ...)))
  (when (string-match ".+.pyc" file) (setq file (substring file 0 -1)))
  (progn (setq py-last-exeption-buffer (current-buffer)) (if (save-match-data ...) (progn ...) (setq line ... pos ... file ...)) (when (string-match ".+.pyc" file) (setq file ...)) (when (string= errwhere "Bottom") (goto-char pos)) (if (and file line) (if ... ... ...) (error "%s of traceback" errwhere)))
  (if (not (save-match-data ...)) (progn (setq py-last-exeption-buffer ...) (if ... ... ...) (when ... ...) (when ... ...) (if ... ... ...)) (goto-char orig) (error "%s of traceback" errwhere))
  (if (save-match-data (eq ... origline)) (progn (forward-line ...) (py-find-next-exception start buffer searchdir errwhere)) (if (not ...) (progn ... ... ... ... ...) (goto-char orig) (error "%s of traceback" errwhere)))
  (if (funcall searchdir py-traceback-line-re nil t) (if (save-match-data ...) (progn ... ...) (if ... ... ... ...)))
  (let ((orig ...) (origline ...) file line pos) (goto-char (py-point start)) (if (funcall searchdir py-traceback-line-re nil t) (if ... ... ...)))
  py-find-next-exception(bol "*IPython*" re-search-backward "Top")
  (if (string= start "TOP") (py-find-next-exception (quote bob) buffer (quote re-search-forward) "Top") (py-find-next-exception (quote bol) buffer (quote re-search-backward) "Top"))
  (if (eq direction (quote up)) (if (string= start "TOP") (py-find-next-exception ... buffer ... "Top") (py-find-next-exception ... buffer ... "Top")) (if (string= start "BOTTOM") (py-find-next-exception ... buffer ... "Bottom") (py-find-next-exception ... buffer ... "Bottom")))
  (let* ((name ...) (buffer ...)) (when buffer (set-buffer ...)) (switch-to-buffer (current-buffer)) (if (eq direction ...) (if ... ... ...) (if ... ... ...)))
  py-find-next-exception-prepare(up nil)
  py-up-exception(nil)
  call-interactively(py-up-exception nil nil)



At this point the cursor in the *IPython* buffer is sitting at the start of the "----> 1 demo1.f()" line.  It's not much of a problem, because on pressing C-c - again, the mini-buffer reports, "Top of traceback".

>> Secondly, the SyntaxError exceptions in the IPython buffer don't get
>> matched.  Pressing C-c - does nothing with the following:
>> 
>> In [1]: import demo2
>>   File "demo3.py", line 4
>>     if a != 25
>>               ^
>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>> 

Works well for me!


>> One thing that would be very useful would be to limit the searching for exception reporting lines to the *last* set of exceptions.  If you have a long Python or IPython session there will probably be several exceptions and pressing C-c - repeatedly, not only goes up the stack for the last exception, but then revisits the stack for the previous one, and so on until the beginning of the buffer is reached.  I don't know if it's feasible to narrow the search just to the last exception.

This too works well for me with Python, but with IPython presssing C-c - repeatedly still goes back to previous stack traces.  In case it helps, I've attached the contents my *IPython* buffer that does this. 

Thanks again.
Cheers,
Richard.