On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:24 AM, Guido van Rossum <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Yuvgoog Greenle <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:16 AM, Ben Finney <[email protected]> >> wrote: > [...] > >> Sorry Benny but you were convinced by an invalid argument. > > Maybe you know Ben personally and maybe it's different in your > culture, but to me it sounds pretty derogatory to call someone "Benny" > who signs as "Ben". > > (BTW are you using a pseudonym? Yuvgoog sounds like a made-up name. > While we are talking about how to address people, I just had to ask.) > >>No pesky warnings - just plain old traceback and a dead process. > > Have you actually ever tried to debug a warning? Typically the easiest > thing to do is to turn warnings into errors so you can see exactly > where it comes from... > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) >
First of all I'd like to apologize to Ben, this may sound like a lame excuse but I guess Ben Finney somehow turned into Benny because of my lack of sleep. So again sorry for that, I really didn't mean it that way. Yuvgoog is a pseudonym indeed, my real name is Yuval Greenfield. I'd grown a habit of trying to see where I get spam mail from so I use names mangled with the service name. You might see me as Yuvpic Greenasa, Yuvfaceal Greenbookfield, etc. I guess this habit's one I should get rid of, especially seeing as it really hasn't paid off (I haven't caught a single spammer yet after probably 6 years of it). Concerning debugging warnings, I have to say I currently remember my experience with 2: the deprecation of sets and the deprecation of string exceptions. On both occasions the warnings helped me figure things out before my code broke. Specifically with raising string exceptions, warnings saved me and my colleagues from alot of bad code, string exceptions were the convention at my office and I only found out early because I installed a new python that warned me. Finding this out as an error might not have been too bad either but it would have probably taken more time until I got a python that doesn't allow raising strings (2.6!). --Yuval Greenfield (yuv) _______________________________________________ stdlib-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/stdlib-sig
