[Python-Dev] TypeError messages

[Serhiy Storchaka]

On 20.02.15 18:11, Eric V. Smith wrote:
> I asked about this years ago, and was told it was in case the type name
> pointer was bad, and to limit the amount of garbage printed. Whether
> that's an actual problem or not, I can't say. It seems more likely that
> you'd get a segfault, but maybe if it was pointing to reused memory it
> could be useful.

Thank you. This makes sense and explains why type names are not 
truncated in Python code.