+1
I've definitely seen a lot of new users make this error, an improved
message could go a long way.
On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 1:52 PM, Nathan Goldbaum
Hi all,
Recently pypy received a patch that improves the error message one gets when 'self' is missing in a method's signature:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/pypy-dev/2016-September/014678.html
Here are the commits that implement the change in pypy:
https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/commits/all?search= branch(better-error-missing-self)
I'm curious whether a similar improvement would also be received well in CPython. In particular, this guides one to the correct solution for a common programming mistake made by newcomers (and even not-so-newcomers).
Here is a case study that found this was a common source of errors for newcomers:
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2960327
-Nathan
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