[Numpy-discussion] better error message possible?

[Charles R Harris]

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk>wrote:

> On 01/06/2012 16:39, Benjamin Root wrote:
> >
> >
> >      > >>> import numpy
> >      > >>> numpy.zeros(10)[-123]
> >      > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >      >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> >      > IndexError: index out of bounds
> >      >
> >      > ...could say this:
> >      >
> >      > >>> numpy.zeros(10)[-123]
> >      > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >      >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> >      > IndexError: -123 is out of bounds
> >
> >     Only that no-one has implemented it, I guess. If you want to then
> >     that'd be cool :-).
> >
> >     To be generally useful for debugging, it would probably be good for
> >     the error message to also mention which dimension is involved, and/or
> >     the actual size of the array in that dimension. You can also get such
> >     error messages from expressions like 'arr[i, j, k]', after all, where
> >     it's even less obvious what went wrong.
> >
> >     -- Nathaniel
> >
> >
> > +1, please!
>
> Indeed, sadly I'm not a C developer. It's a pet bugbear of mine that
> Python's built-in exceptions often tell you what went wrong but not what
> data caused the error, even when it's easily to hand when raising the
> exception.
>
> Where's the right place to raise an issue that a numpy developer can
> hopefully make the (I suspect) simple change to get this behaviour?
>
>
Hmm, how about I enable github issues for the numpy repository? It looks
like we are headed that way and maybe now is a good time to get started.

Chuck
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