Russ schrieb: > I love Python, but every time I get an out-of-range error message, I > wonder why it didn't just tell me what the out-of-range index was and > what the allowable range was. Certainly that information must be > available to the exception handler, or how would it know that it is out > of range?
Yes, that is true. The information is readily available. It's not true that it is "trivial" to fix, though: for every fix, there ought to be a new test case also, and you have to run the test suite. Depending on how fast a developer is, it may take between 30min and 1hour to get a fix implemented (for the list case alone, not counting all the other sequences). Even though I could fix it, I don't feel tempted to do so: I never had this problem; in most cases of IndexError, it was very clear what the problem was so I didn't need the additional information. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
