hello people, i try to educate my children to have a reasonable use of digital ressources so they try to respect 2 rules:
* don't use a search engine if you don't need * don't use the bandwith to get something you already have on your machine my kid use python at school and get stuck on very basic errors like TypeError. I realize how difficult it is for a non programmer to make the connexion between the error message and the relevant doc. so: those are ideas i would like to share with your as a perl monger who miss the perl ecosystem when writting python code: * don't stacktrace by default: backtraces are just noise for newbies. * make the messages a little bit informative. maybe with links to the documentation. * have a python module that behaves like perl diagnostics (https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/perl/lib/diagnostics.pm) at least as a ipython extension. * make pydoc able to show the doc related to an Error * make the official documentation available with man (the way perl does it: man perl gives you the list of other man pages that are both turorials and reference). * have the error messages translated into natural langages hope that helps. regards, marc _______________________________________________ Doc-SIG maillist - Doc-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/doc-sig