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Re-inspection of values in a Traceback

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You can use inspect module :

try:
    foo()
except AssertionError, e:
    import inspect
    previous_trace = inspect.trace()[1]
    frame = previous_trace[0]
    print 'value of a, b:', inspect.getargvalues(frame).locals

See http://docs.python.org/library/inspect.html#inspect.getargvalues