On 6/12/10 8:26 PM, Gregory Ewing wrote: >> On Jun 12, 6:05 pm, Stephen Hansen <me+list/pyt...@ixokai.io> wrote: > >>> A programming goof, oversight or unexpected event causes an exception. >>> It doesn't cause a buffer overflow. > > The important thing here isn't so much the exception as > the *traceback*. > > When you've been programming in Python for a while, it's > easy to forget how much help the traceback is in tracking > down bugs. Suddenly being faced with having to do without > one comes as a rude shock.
Oh, agreed absolutely. The exception just gets things started. If its something you're prepared for, you can recover just fine. Worst case scenario, you get a traceback. And you pity those people who have to have gdb running before hand and get a stack trace ;-) -- Stephen Hansen ... Also: Ixokai ... Mail: me+list/python (AT) ixokai (DOT) io ... Blog: http://meh.ixokai.io/
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