On 12/10/2011 12:09 PM, PJ Eby wrote:
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Terry Reedy
mailto:tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote: This just gave me the idea of tagging tracebacks with the Python version number. Something like
Traceback (Py3.2.2, most recent call last):
and perhaps with the platform also
Traceback (most recent call last) [Py3.2.2 on win23]:
Since computation has stopped, the few extra milliseconds is trivial. This would certainly help on Python list and the tracker when people do post the traceback (which they do not always) without version and system (which they often do not, especially on Python list). It might suggest to people that this is important info to include. I wonder if this would also help with tracebacks sent to library/app developers.
Yes, but doctest will need to take this into account, both for its native traceback matcher, and for traceback matches using ellipses. Otherwise you introduce more Python version hell for doctest users.
Is doctest really insisting that the whole line Traceback (most recent call last): exactly match, with nothing added? It really should not, as that is not part of the language spec. This seems like the tail wagging the dog. -- Terry Jan Reedy