PyWart: NameError trackbacks are superfluous

[Chris Angelico]

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 19:58:41 -0600, Michael Torrie wrote:
>
>> On 03/16/2013 06:11 PM, Rick Johnson wrote:
>>> No, the "ACTUAL PROBLEM" is in the author.
>>
>> Surely any NameException can also be blamed on the author then, by your
>> logic?
>
> Any exception at all is obviously the author's fault. I propose that
> Python stops wasting our time with debugging information and tracebacks,
> and on any error, simply prints the following message then dump core:
>
>
> PEBKACError: Programmer is an idiot. You did something wrong, you moron,
> turn your computer off, you're obviously too stupid to program.
>
>
> That will certainly improve productivity.

Why dump core? That seems far too useful to fit with the rest of your
proposal. Just exit 0 - after all, it wasn't Python's fault, so it
obviously succeeded.

ChrisA