On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 8:14 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. > > -- > Steven
Don't have it dump core. Have it print a pink slip to the default printer. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list