[Python-3000] unit test for advanced formatting (original) (raw)

Talin talin at acm.org
Thu Mar 1 03:58:31 CET 2007

Greg Ewing wrote:

Talin wrote:

A typical example of what I am talking about here is something like a web application server, where you have a "development" mode and a "production" mode. In the development mode, you want to find errors as quickly as possible, so you enable strict formatting. In production, however, you want the server to be as fault-tolerant as possible, so you would enable lenient mode. This seems misguided. There's a difference between being fault-tolerant and being bug-tolerant. I don't think that ignoring symptoms of bugs and going on to produce incorrect results is any more acceptable in a production web server as it would be in any other environment.

It depends on the kind of web service you are running. For example, if your web site is a bank, then a crash may be preferable to an incorrect total; However if your web site is a blog, then something like "Last posted on ?MissingArgument?" might be preferable to a self-imposed denial of service attack, i.e. a server that produces no pages at all, or pages that say only "An error occurred while generating this page".

In any case, this issue doesn't really matter to me.

-- Talin

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