On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Antoine Pitrou
<solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
On Sat, 15 May 2010 11:02:35 -0300
> >>> 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