Gabriel Genellina wrote: > En Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:09:40 -0300, Michele Simionato > <michele.simion...@gmail.com> escribió: > >> On Jan 29, 2:30 pm, andrew cooke <and...@acooke.org> wrote: >>> Is there any way to change the name of the function in an error >>> message? In the example below I'd like the error to refer to bar(), >>> for example (the motivation is related function decorators - I'd like >>> the wrapper function to give the same name) >> >> Use the decorator module which does the right thing: >> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/decorator > > The decorator module is a very fine addition to anyone's tool set -- but > in this case it is enough to use the wraps() function from the functools > standard module.
I don't know about the decorator module, but functools.wraps() doesn't affect the error message: >>> from functools import wraps >>> def f(): pass ... >>> @wraps(f) ... def g(): pass ... >>> g.__name__ 'f' >>> try: g(42) ... except TypeError as e: ... print e ... g() takes no arguments (1 given) Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
