[Python-Dev] unscriptable? (original) (raw)

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Mon Apr 21 19:27:27 CEST 2008


Alexander Belopolsky schrieb:

ruby: undefined method `[]=' for 1:Fixnum (NoMethodError) I think it will be natural to unify [] error message with the other binary ops: Now:

1+"" Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'str' Proposal: 1[2] Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for []: 'int' and 'int'

This is misleading, since it suggests that you can remedy this by using another type in the subscript, which isn't possible.

Georg



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