[Python-Dev] Traceback style (original) (raw)

Eric S. Raymond esr@thyrsus.com
Tue, 2 May 2000 06:16:55 -0400

Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>:

I propose the following stylistic changes to traceback printing:

1. If there is no function name for a given level in the traceback, just omit the ", in ?" at the end of the line. 2. If a given level of the traceback is in a method, instead of just printing the method name, print the class and the method name. 3. Instead of beginning each line with: File "foo.py", line 5 print the line first and drop the quotes: Line 5 of foo.py In the common interactive case that the file is a typed-in string, the current printout is File "", line 1 and the following is easier to read in my opinion: Line 1 of Here is an example: >>> class Spam: ... def eggs(self): ... return self.ham ... >>> s = Spam() >>> s.eggs() Traceback (innermost last): File "", line 1, in ? File "", line 3, in eggs AttributeError: ham With the suggested changes, this would print as Traceback (innermost last): Line 1 of Line 3 of , in Spam.eggs AttributeError: ham

IMHO, this is not a good idea. Emacs users like me want traceback labels to be more like C compiler error messages, not less.

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