[Python-ideas] Showing qualified names when a function call fails

[Neil Girdhar]

I was thinking of posting something like the first suggestion myself.  Both 
would be a great additions.

On Monday, October 24, 2016 at 6:10:52 PM UTC-4, Ryan Gonzalez wrote:
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> I personally find it kind of annoying when you have code like this:
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> x = A(1, B(2, 3))
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> and Python's error message looks like this:
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> TypeError: __init__() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given
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> It doesn't give much of a clue to which `__init__` is being called. At all.
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> The idea: when showing the function name in an error like this, show the 
> fully qualified name, like:
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> TypeError: A.__init__() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given
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> This would be MUCH more helpful!
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> Another related change would be to do the same thing in tracebacks:
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> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "<stdin>", line 2, in __init__
> AssertionError
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> to:
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> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "<stdin>", line 2, in MyClass.__init__
> AssertionError
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> which could make it easier to find where exactly an error originated.
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> -- 
> Ryan (ライアン)
> [ERROR]: Your autotools build scripts are 200 lines longer than your 
> program. Something’s wrong.
> http://kirbyfan64.github.io/
>  
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