I wonder if The Fuck could be customize to handle these improved error messages envisioned: https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck
It's a lovely tool. I don't mind the minor profanity, but when I teach I add an alias of 'fix' for students to see instead. On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 5:34 PM Christopher Barker <python...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 1:17 PM Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas < > python-ideas@python.org> wrote: > >> (By the way, the reason I used -f rather than —fix is that I can’t figure >> out how to get the iPhone Mail.app to not replace double hyphens with an >> em-dash, or even how to fix it when it does. All of the other fancifier >> stuff can be worked around pretty easily, but apparently not that one…) >> > > Totally OT -- but just the other day, I was using a Google Sheets, and it > kept converting "4, 5, 6" or "4-5-6" into a date. I could NOT figure out > how to turn it off -- infuriating! > > Back OT: The fact that there are many ways that our text may get mangled > in other systems does not mean Python should tolerate ambiguity. > > Having a "tabnanny-like" function / module in the stdlib would be nice, > though I'd think a stand alone module in PyPi would be almost as good, and > a good way to see if it gains traction. > > BTW -- there are a whole lot of Syntax Errors that a semi smart algorithm > could provide meaningful suggestions about about. I'm pretty sure that's > come up before on this list, but maybe "helpful" mode you could run Python > in that would do that for all Syntax errors that it could. We could even > have a way for folks to extend it with additional checks. > > Kind of like how git makes suggestions if you type something almost like a > command. > > -CHB > > -- > Christopher Barker, PhD > > Python Language Consulting > - Teaching > - Scientific Software Development > - Desktop GUI and Web Development > - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/DHC3CVB3ENPTLSZLZD2LH6LMTRJOOTMN/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- The dead increasingly dominate and strangle both the living and the not-yet born. Vampiric capital and undead corporate persons abuse the lives and control the thoughts of homo faber. Ideas, once born, become abortifacients against new conceptions.
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