create useful little dicts related to an exception

exc_dict.md

def exc_dict():
    """Expects to be called from within an exception handling block as in:
            try:
                foo()
            except Exception:
                print exc_dict()

    Creates a nice array of dictionaries each of which describes
    a part of the traceback:
    
    [
     {'file': '/usr/local/src/project/test.py',
      'function': 'run_test',
      'line': '99'},
     {'file': '/usr/local/src/project/module.py',
      'function': 'foo',
      'line': '199'}
    ]
    """
    exception = traceback.format_exc().splitlines()

    es = []
    for line in exception:
        if line != exception[0] and line != exception[-1]:
            line = line.split(', ')
            line = [l.strip().replace('"', '').split(' ', 1) for l in line]
            dd = {'file': '', 'line': '', 'function': ''}
            for p in line:
                if p[0] == 'File':
                    dd['file'] = os.path.abspath(p[1])
                elif p[0] == 'line':
                    dd['line'] = p[1]
                elif p[0] == 'in':
                    dd['function'] = p[1]
            if dd['file'] or dd['line'] or dd['function']:
                es.append(dd)
    return es