Hard to find bugs, misleading exceptions

[Steve Holden]

"Ferenczi Viktor" <cx at cx.hu> wrote ..
> Recently I've debugged my source code more than an hour to find a very
> instructive bug. The simplified problem is demonstrated in the following
> interactive session:
>
[missing comma in list of tuples]
>
> Alternatively a "bug hunter" module could be implemented to point out
common
> mistakes in the source code, passing the runtime exception to the module
may
> help.
>
It's called "pychecker", and I'd be very surprised if it didn't point out
the problem it took you so long to find. These things certainly are very
annoying.

> If you had some hard to debug scenarios, please share it and it's solution
> with the python community. This can save time and improve productivity of
> the community as a whole. Is there a mailing list somewhere about this
> problem?
>

regards
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