[Python-Dev] Standardize error message for non-pickleable types (original) (raw)

Victor Stinner vstinner at redhat.com
Mon Oct 29 15:51:34 EDT 2018


Le lun. 29 oct. 2018 à 20:42, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> a écrit :

1. "pickle" or "serialize"?

serialize

2. "can't", "Cannot", "can not" or "cannot"?

cannot

3. "object" or "objects"?

object

4. Use the "a" article or not?

no: "cannot serialize xxx object" (but i'm not a native english speaker, so don't trust me :-))

5. Use quotes around type name or not?

Use repr() in Python, but use '%s' is C since it would be too complex to write code to properly implement repr() (decode tp_name from UTF-8, handle error, call repr, handle error, etc.).

To use repr() on tp_name, I would prefer to have a new formatter, see the thread of last month. https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2018-September/155150.html

Victor



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