[Python-Dev] quick patch for better debugging
Jeremy Fincher
fincher.8 at osu.edu
Mon Nov 24 06:12:36 EST 2003
On Sunday 23 November 2003 08:05 pm, Greg Ewing wrote:
> I agree with the general idea of providing some sort of
> identifying information, but in these cases I can't think
> what sort of information would be useful short of displaying
> the entire repr() of the object, which would be too much for
> a backtrace message, I think.
You don't have to include the offending index/key in the __str__ of the
exception itself. Even if it was just available in the exception's args
tuple, or even as an attribute on the exception object, it'd still be highly
useful as a debugging tool. I've wished for this myself on several
occasions.
Jeremy
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