[Python-3000] Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: Octal

[Patrick Maupin]

Let me restate that.  It's obvious that a lot of error message have
had a lot of thought put into them, so when I said:

> so it would seem that
> nobody has turned a critical eye on the reporting of errors to nervous
> first-time programmers who are already worried they are going to break
> the machine.

I really should have said that:

a) there is no apparent process for approving messages from a newbie's
viewpoint; and
b) the exception reporting system, which has been little changed in a
very long time, should also be given some real thought in 3.0.  For
example, perhaps it can even have an option to link to a web how-to
which is specific to a given error...

Regards,
Pat