[Python-Dev] Reasons behind misleading TypeError message when passing the wrong number of arguments to a method (original) (raw)

Cameron Simpson cs at zip.com.au
Fri May 21 03:46:38 CEST 2010


On 20May2010 17:46, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote: | Would it help if the traceback showed the ‘repr()’ of each of the | arguments received? That way it would be much clearer when the instance | was received as the first argument.

I've occasionally passed large or deep dicts etc to functions and foolishly printed their repr in debug statements. They can be... wordy. Maybe a cropped repr, or the .class attribute?

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