The most annoying typo error...

[Peter Ballard]

....Is when I do something like this:

x = somefunction(a, b, c, d),

and when I run Python I get a TypeError error.

You spotted the error immediately didn't you? The line of code above
has a trailing comma, so that x is suddenly a tuple; and so when I get
around to using x I get a TypeError.

I don't know about anyone else, but for me, this error always takes a
long time to track down.

So my question is: has anyone come up with some way of alerting users
to this sort of error? (e.g. more verbose TypeError messages? Emacs
warning ["Did you really mean to create a 1 element tuple?"??) Just
wondering.

Regards,

Peter Ballard
Adelaide, AUSTRALIA
pballard at ozemail.com.au
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~pballard/

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