Hard to find bugs, misleading exceptions

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> 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.

Thanks for the information. I'll try out pychecker and probably integrate it
into my editor (SciTE) as a hot-key. - Complex

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Holden" <sholden at holdenweb.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
To: <python-list at python.org>
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 10:16 PM
Subject: Re: Hard to find bugs, misleading exceptions


> "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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