[Python-3000] PEP 3100 Comments

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Tue May 9 06:08:27 CEST 2006


On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 20:51 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Well, personally, I don't see the advantage. I don't see the point of
> having lots of different exception types that say "you made a
> programming error" in different ways, and I severely doubt the
> usefulness of being able to distinguish between those different
> failure modes at run time. Others do. I doubt that one side is able to
> convince the other side. So let's agree to disagree.

What about including the object you tried to call as an attribute on the
TypeError?

-Barry

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