[Python-Dev] Re: More informative error messages (original) (raw)
Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Oct 8 22:29:09 EDT 2003
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"Gregory P. Smith" <greg at electricrain.com>:
At the time the TypeError is constructed it shouldn't add serious overhead to check if its a method or a function and subtract 1 accordingly.
Except that by the time the error is detected, we've lost track of whether it's a method or not.
Maybe a heuristic could be applied, e.g. if the first parameter is called 'self', say something like "foo() takes exactly 1 argument (excluding 'self'), 0 given".
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