On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 2:35 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> If the user >> can see the stack trace and work back to the point where they passed >> something in to your function then how does the extra level hurt? > > It hurts precisely because it is one extra level. I acknowledge that it is > *only* one extra level. (I told you this was a marginal benefit.) > > If one extra level is okay, might two extra be okay? How about three? What > about thirty? Where would you draw the line? >
It becomes something to get used to when you work with a particular library. Several of my students have run into this with matplotlib or sklearn; you make a mistake with a parameter to function X, which just takes that as-is and passes it to function Y, which does some manipulation but doesn't trip the error, and then calls through to function Z, which notices that one parameter doesn't match another, and raises an exception. You get used to scrolling way up to find the actual cause of the error. Whether that supports or contradicts your point, I'm not sure. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
