[Python-ideas] Make traceback messages aware of line continuation

[Nick Coghlan]

On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:41 AM, Felipe Cruz <felipecruz at loogica.net> wrote:
> +1
>
> It would be great to have this feature.

As Terry explained on the tracker issue, printing the entire
expression is hugely problematic, as it means that long definition
displays (e.g. for dictionaries or lists) will show a huge amount of
noise, rather than the subexpression that actually triggered the
exception. It is far better to break up the code to avoid long lines
in the first place, even if that involves creating "redundant"
assignment statements for subexpressions.

Cheers,
Nick.

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