In <1f47c36d-a509-4d05-ba79-62b4a534b...@j19g2000prh.googlegroups.com> Carl Banks <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> writes:
>On Dec 22, 8:52=A0am, kj <no.em...@please.post> wrote: >> In <mailman.65.1292517591.6505.python-l...@python.org> Robert Kern <rober= >t.k...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> >Obfuscating the location that an exception gets raised prevents a lot of >> >debugging... >> >> The Python interpreter does a lot of that "obfuscation" already, and I >> find the resulting tracebacks more useful for it. >> >> An error message is only useful to a given audience if that audience >> can use the information in the message to modify what they are >> doing to avoid the error. >> =A0It is of no use (certainly no *immediate* >> use) to this audience to see tracebacks that go deep into code that >> they don't know anything about and cannot change. >So when the audience files a bug report it's not useful for them to >include the whole traceback? Learn to read, buster. I wrote *immediate* use. ~kj -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
