Traceback is a python module that provides a standard interface to extract, format and print stack traces of a python program. When it prints the stack trace it exactly mimics the behaviour of a python interpreter. Useful when you want to print the stack trace at any step.

Why do we use traceback in Python?

In Python, A traceback is a report containing the function calls made in your code at a specific point i.e when you get an error it is recommended that you should trace it backward(traceback). Whenever the code gets an exception, the traceback will give the information about what went wrong in the code.

What is meant by traceback?

Filters. (chiefly computing) Determination of origin; the process of tracing something back to its source.