STINNER Victor <vstin...@python.org> added the comment:
Helping the developer to suggest a fix introduces a minor but non-zero overhead, I would prefer to only enable it as an opt-in option. Maybe enable it using in the development mode (-X dev/PYTHONDEVMODE=1)? > https://github.com/dutc/didyoumean (by James Powell) This project hooks into PyObject_GetAttr() by modifying PyObject_GetAttr() machine code, which is definitely not a portable approach. Maybe one approach would be to add a way to install a hook to customize AttributeError exceptions? Can this issue be implemented using sys.excepthook? -- This issue is specific to AttributeError, but I vaguely recall that Yury Selivanov told me that he wanted to something but for any exception. Detect the most common mistakes and propose a solution. I don't think that he ever sent anything in public sadly. I add Yury in the nosy list. -- Here is another project which also catch NameError, AttributeError, ImportError, TypeError, ValueError, SyntaxError, MemoryError, OverflowError, OSError, RuntimeError, etc. : https://github.com/SylvainDe/DidYouMean-Python It is implemented with sys.excepthook, but it is also compatible with IPython "custom exception handler" (call get_ipython().set_custom_exc()). By the way, does IPython have a feature like this? In short, https://github.com/SylvainDe/DidYouMean-Python seems to already implement this issue in the proper way, no? -- Similar project for Ruby: https://github.com/yuki24/did_you_mean ---------- nosy: +yselivanov _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue38530> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
