# PEP 831 – Frame Pointers Everywhere: Enabling System-Level Observability for Python

**URL:** <https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-831-frame-pointers-everywhere-enabling-system-level-observability-for-python/106958>\
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**Created:** [April 13, 2026, 4:11pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-831-frame-pointers-everywhere-enabling-system-level-observability-for-python/106958 "2026-04-13T16:11:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 30, 2026, 9:57pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-831-frame-pointers-everywhere-enabling-system-level-observability-for-python/106958/6 "2026-04-30T21:57:48Z")

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After extensive deliberation the Steering Council has decided to accept PEP 831 (Frame Pointers Everywhere: yahdah yahdah), because it’s clearly the correct and necessary thing… although we wish the PEP and its title had been a lot shorter, given how much of an obvious decision it is. Congrats!

(Pablo and Savannah, as PEP authors, were not involved in the decision process.)

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