[Python-3000] Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: Octal (original) (raw)

Patrick Maupin pmaupin at gmail.com
Thu Mar 15 05:30:24 CET 2007

Let me restate that. It's obvious that a lot of error message have had a lot of thought put into them, so when I said:

so it would seem that nobody has turned a critical eye on the reporting of errors to nervous first-time programmers who are already worried they are going to break the machine.

I really should have said that:

a) there is no apparent process for approving messages from a newbie's viewpoint; and b) the exception reporting system, which has been little changed in a very long time, should also be given some real thought in 3.0. For example, perhaps it can even have an option to link to a web how-to which is specific to a given error...

Regards, Pat

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