[issue25436] argparse.ArgumentError missing error message in __repr__

[Daniel Fortunov]

Daniel Fortunov added the comment:

Paul,

Thanks for your comprehensive reply. I agree with everything you've said and the reason I've taken so long to reply is that I've been racking my brains to remember exactly how I came across this scenario.

I did at some point see an ArgumentError but I've forgotten the exact scenario. Since I can't see any of our internal codebase explicitly raising an ArgumentError, then I can only assume this must have just been a frustration I encountered when debugging into argparse code.

So I'll reformulate the question: Do you think it's worthwhile to make ArgumentError's repr() more useful for the purposes of interactive debugging alone?

Regards,
Dani

PS: I agree with your suggestion that you could achieve the same effect by defining a `__repr__` method for `ArgumentError`. I just thought that calling `super()` was more idiomatic.

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