Python needs better error reporting
Fredrik Lundh
fredrik at pythonware.com
Mon Jul 1 07:32:22 EDT 2002
"Opus" wrote:
> This being said, the fact that this is not a compiled language
it is.
> it still needs to read the source file to make sure it is up to
> date
it doesn't -- it asks the *file system* for a timestamp. the
parser's got nothing to do with that.
> Maybe even an option for the parser to spot bad-practice code.
> I.E. Is is faster to call 'var += 1' or 'var = var + 1'.
it's not.
(let's hope whoever implements the "newspeak" module cares enough to
run benchmarks -- and makes sure that we can tell it to shut up when
writing code supposed to run on more than one Python version...)
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