[Python-Dev] Attribute error: providing type name (original) (raw)

Filip Gruszczyński gruszczy at gmail.com
Sun Nov 30 22:39:12 CET 2008

I have done some testing and it seems, that it might not be Python problem. Well, when I use only pure Python objects, I get really nice description of the object (which means the type). But I am using PyQt and it seems, that when an object is subclassing QObject (or possibly some other class from qt, that can be not derived from QObject) it can only display information about the name of the function. PyQt are python bindings for C++ qt library. Can this be the reason for not displaying type of the object?

2008/11/30 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:

Christian Heimes wrote:

Adam Olsen wrote:

I'm sure you'll get support for this, unless it's a really inconvenient spot that requires a gross hack to print the type name. Post a patch on the bug tracker.

So far I can see only one argument against the proposed idea: doc tests. The modified exception message would break existing doc tests. It wouldn't be the first time we've broken doc tests that way. Since the details of the error messages aren't guaranteed to remain the same across releases, doctests that aren't part of Python's own test suite really should be using IGNOREEXCEPTIONDETAIL when checking for exceptions that are raised directly by the interpreter or standard library. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------

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