On Dec 22, 8:52 am, kj <no.em...@please.post> wrote: > In <mailman.65.1292517591.6505.python-l...@python.org> Robert Kern > <robert.k...@gmail.com> writes: > > >Obfuscating the location that an exception gets raised prevents a lot of > >debugging... > > The Python interpreter does a lot of that "obfuscation" already, and I > find the resulting tracebacks more useful for it. > > An error message is only useful to a given audience if that audience > can use the information in the message to modify what they are > doing to avoid the error.
So when the audience files a bug report it's not useful for them to include the whole traceback? > It is of no use (certainly no *immediate* > use) to this audience to see tracebacks that go deep into code that > they don't know anything about and cannot change. Seriously, quit trying to do the user favors. There's nothing that pisses me off than a self-important developer thinking he knows what the user wants more than the user does. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list