Jean-Paul Calderone wrote: > On 3 Dec 2006 17:23:49 -0800, Russ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Rather, they (like I) will encourage to OP to submit a patch that fixes > >> the problem. > > > >Now, that would be rather silly. I would have to familiarize myself > >with the code for the Python interpreter, then send a patch to the > >maintainers (and hope they notice it in their inboxes), while the > >maintainers themselves could probably "fix" the problem in two minutes > >flat. No thanks! > > And I have some laundry that I would like you to do for me. Let me know > when a convenient time for you to pick it up would be. > > Jean-Paul
Perhaps a better analogy is that the OP has observed (correctly IMHO) that the robes of *all* Pythonistas, including those not yet born and those not yet converted from heathen languages, could be whiter than what they are. There are others whose capability to implement an enhancement is likely to be much greater than his. IOW, apart from being somewhat impolite, he may: * not be able to write C * not understand that apart from listobject.c, he might have to patch (OTTOMH) stringobject.c, tupleobject.c, arraymodule.c and who knows what else [see below] * not come up with a good message Would the following be acceptable, BTW? | >>> [4, 5, 6][10] | IndexError: list index 10 out of range(3) | >>> [4, 5, 6][-4] | IndexError: list index -4 out of range(3) or would something like ... out of range; len is 3 be better? Footnote: Based on 2.4.3 source, quite a few files, many with multiple lines to patch: C:\Python_source\Python-2.4.3\Objects>grep -n "index out of range" *.c File bufferobject.c: 406 PyErr_SetString(PyExc_IndexError, "buffer index out of range"); 450 "buffer assignment index out of range"); File listobject.c: 144 "list index out of range"); 165 "list assignment index out of range"); 389 "list index out of range"); 693 "list assignment index out of range"); 881 PyErr_SetString(PyExc_IndexError, "pop index out of range"); File rangeobject.c: 143 "xrange object index out of range"); File stringobject.c: 1041 PyErr_SetString(PyExc_IndexError, "string index out of range"); File structseq.c: 62 PyErr_SetString(PyExc_IndexError, "tuple index out of range"); File tupleobject.c: 104 PyErr_SetString(PyExc_IndexError, "tuple index out of range"); 123 "tuple assignment index out of range"); 310 PyErr_SetString(PyExc_IndexError, "tuple index out of range"); File unicodeobject.c: 5241 PyErr_SetString(PyExc_IndexError, "string index out of range"); C:\Python_source\Python-2.4.3\Modules>grep -n "index out of range" *.c File arraymodule.c: 599 PyErr_SetString(PyExc_IndexError, "array index out of range"); 767 "array assignment index out of range"); 997 PyErr_SetString(PyExc_IndexError, "pop index out of range"); File collectionsmodule.c: 399 "deque index out of range"); 461 "deque index out of range"); File mmapmodule.c: 648 PyErr_SetString(PyExc_IndexError, "mmap index out of range"); 736 PyErr_SetString(PyExc_IndexError, "mmap index out of range"); File regexmodule.c: 181 PyErr_SetString(RegexError, "group() index out of range"); File _heapqmodule.c: 19 PyErr_SetString(PyExc_IndexError, "index out of range"); 58 PyErr_SetString(PyExc_IndexError, "index out of range"); 136 PyErr_SetString(PyExc_IndexError, "index out of range"); 173 PyErr_SetString(PyExc_IndexError, "index out of range"); 310 PyErr_SetString(PyExc_IndexError, "index out of range"); 349 PyErr_SetString(PyExc_IndexError, "index out of range"); Cheers, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
