On Dec 25, 6:21 am, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/24/10 4:24 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 22:38:05 -0800, Carl Banks wrote: > >> OTOH, going the extra mile to hide useful information from a user is > >> asinine. As a user, I will decide for myself how I want to use > >> implementation-defined information, and I don't want the implementor to > >> decide this for me. It's bad enough if an implementor fails to provide > >> information out of laziness, but when they deliberately do extra work to > >> hide information, that's self-importance and arrogance. > > > But that of course is nonsense, because as the user you don't decide > > anything of the sort. The developer responsible for writing the function > > decides what information he provides you, starting with whether you get > > an exception at all, where it comes from, the type of exception, and the > > error message (if any). > > Carl isn't arguing that the user is or should be responsible for this sort of > thing. He is arguing that developers should be responsible for doing this in > such a way that is beneficial for the developer/user down the road.
I'm not even arguing that; I think I would be content if the developer merely doesn't actively work to harm the user. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
