On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 19:58:41 -0600, Michael Torrie wrote: > >> On 03/16/2013 06:11 PM, Rick Johnson wrote: >>> No, the "ACTUAL PROBLEM" is in the author. >> >> Surely any NameException can also be blamed on the author then, by your >> logic? > > Any exception at all is obviously the author's fault. I propose that > Python stops wasting our time with debugging information and tracebacks, > and on any error, simply prints the following message then dump core: > > > PEBKACError: Programmer is an idiot. You did something wrong, you moron, > turn your computer off, you're obviously too stupid to program. > > > That will certainly improve productivity.
Why dump core? That seems far too useful to fit with the rest of your proposal. Just exit 0 - after all, it wasn't Python's fault, so it obviously succeeded. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
