[Python-3000] Changing function-related TypeErrors

[Collin Winter]

On 5/7/06, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> On 5/7/06, Collin Winter <collinw at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This -- more intuitive error messages -- is really what I'm after, and
> > while you may think of type of "def foo(a, b, c):..." as "a function
> > with three required arguments", I'd wager that most Python
> > programmers, if asked what type foo has, would say simply, "it's a
> > function".
>
> Then introducing a new exception isn't going to make a difference.

Sure it will: the name of the exception class is effectively part of
the error message once the exception instance bubbles up to the user.
"TypeError: foo() got an unexpected keyword argument 'bar'".

Collin Winter