[Python-Dev] Error message for wrong number of arguments (original) (raw)

Chris Barker chris.barker at noaa.gov
Mon Jul 30 16:19:06 EDT 2018

On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 11:39 AM, Jeroen Demeyer <J.Demeyer at ugent.be> wrote:

On 2018-07-30 20:22, Chris Barker wrote:

is it possible for the interpreter to know when this error is generated that this is a bound method expecting a "self", rather than an arbitrary function with n parameters?

That would be quite hard. The error message is generated by the underlying function. At that point, the information of how it was called (as bound method or not) is already gone.

Thanks, I figured as much.

Oh well. This is a serious usability issue -- but what can you do?

-CHB

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