stdazi wrote: > Usually, when I make some coding mistake (index out of range - in this > case) I just care to fix the mistake and I usually don't mind to > inspect by how much the index was overflowed. It really seems like a > feature that should be embedded in some Python debugger than a feature > in the interpreter itself.
Then why have the interpreter generate error messages at all? I think it makes sense to make the interpreter as self-contained as possible, within reason, so you don't depend on a debugger any more than necessary. And it's not that I care "how much the index was overflowed." It's that something unexpected happened, and I want a clue what it was. I'll need to find out somehow anyway. What is the next logical step if not to find out what the out-of-range index was? Having said that, I reiterate that I don't know the implementation difficulty, so I defer on the decision as to whether it is worth implementing or not. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
