[Python-ideas] Fwd: i18n and Python tracebacks

Sorry, I did not forward to the list by mistake. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andre Roberge Date: Sat, May 15, 2010 at 12:13 PM Subject: Re: [Python-ideas] i18n and Python tracebacks To: Antoine Pitrou On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

On Sat, 15 May 2010 11:02:35 -0300 Andre Roberge wrote:

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1/0 Suivi d'erreur (appel le plus récent en dernier) : Fichier "<stdin>", à la ligne 1, dans <module> ZeroDivisionError: division entière ou modulo par zéro

I'm not sure it's a good idea. The fact that these messages are always in English makes it possible: - to share them with other developers in order to get help - to parse them in order to assert certain kind of errors

These messages are primarily meant for developers, not users.

I think you forget students (including one ones) that have to deal with such messages. Imagine you could start python with python --lang="en" your_script.py This would easily allow to share tracebacks with developers to get help.

(as a sidenote, I regularly get annoyed by gcc's "translated" error messages -- especially how crappy the French translation often is. It's always better to get a good English error message than a horrible French one)

True ... I know I'd choose English as a default myself for Python (even though, like you I believe, French is my first language). *But*, for beginners, this would be, I think, a great option. André

Antoine.

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