[Python-3000] PEP 3100 Comments

[Guido van Rossum]

Now we're talking. Although it might make more sense if (an
abbreviated form of) its repr() were included in the error message --
that would help most humans diagnose the situation most easily.

--Guido

On 5/8/06, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 20:51 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > Well, personally, I don't see the advantage. I don't see the point of
> > having lots of different exception types that say "you made a
> > programming error" in different ways, and I severely doubt the
> > usefulness of being able to distinguish between those different
> > failure modes at run time. Others do. I doubt that one side is able to
> > convince the other side. So let's agree to disagree.
>
> What about including the object you tried to call as an attribute on the
> TypeError?
>
> -Barry
>
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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)