On 5/7/06, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/7/06, Collin Winter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This -- more intuitive error messages -- is really what I'm after, and > > while you may think of type of "def foo(a, b, c):..." as "a function > > with three required arguments", I'd wager that most Python > > programmers, if asked what type foo has, would say simply, "it's a > > function". > > Then introducing a new exception isn't going to make a difference.
Sure it will: the name of the exception class is effectively part of the error message once the exception instance bubbles up to the user. "TypeError: foo() got an unexpected keyword argument 'bar'". Collin Winter _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
