On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:10:17 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2011-12-08, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: >> On Thursday, December 8, 2011 10:03:38 AM UTC-5, Jean-Michel Pichavant >> wrote: >>> string are iterable, considering this, the error is correct. >> >> Yes, I understand that the exception is correct. I'm not saying the >> exception should be changed, just that we have the opportunity to >> produce a more useful error message. The exception would be equally >> correct if it was: >> >> ValueError: you did something wrong > > My favorite is still the old classic error from and old Unix printer > port driver: > > "lp0 on fire" > >> but most people would probably agree that it's not the most useful >> message that could have been produced.
not as useless as "Keyboard Error press F1 to continue" -- "I once witnessed a long-winded, month-long flamewar over the use of mice vs. trackballs...It was very silly." (By Matt Welsh) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
