[Python-Dev] Reasons behind misleading TypeError message when passing the wrong number of arguments to a method

[Cameron Simpson]

On 20May2010 17:46, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
| Would it help if the traceback showed the ‘repr()’ of each of the
| arguments received? That way it would be much clearer when the instance
| was received as the first argument.

I've occasionally passed large or deep dicts etc to functions and foolishly
printed their repr in debug statements. They can be... wordy.  Maybe a
cropped repr, or the .__class__ attribute?
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