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Note

This documentation covers two related projects: friendly and friendly-traceback.

You likely need to install and use friendly.

Differences between friendly and friendly_traceback

friendly_traceback is the program that does all the required work to analyze a traceback and present the information in an helpful way.

Friendly takes the output of friendly_traceback and formats it for specific environments, usually adding colour to the output.

If you use one of:

• A terminal, ideally with colour support

• Python’s IDLE

• Mu

• IPython

• Jupyter Notebooks and Jupyter Lab

• Visual Studio Code

• Google Colab notebooks

• etc.

you will want to install and use Friendly.

Note that Friendly has quite a few additional dependencies compared with friendly_traceback.

If you design your own programming environment, such as is done on HackInScience or futurecoder then you likely only need to install friendly_traceback.