On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Here's a truly trivial case where code will succeed or fail depending on > the order of function calls. > (chop code) > It's not enough to know that the print line in display() fails, because > that's merely the side-effect. The actual problem occurs in the caller, > fail(). If NameError suppressed the traceback, that would be more > difficult to solve.
A good example. It would be logically equivalent to set spam=None in stop(), and nobody would expect the TypeError to omit the traceback, so why should delling the name be any different? ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
