[Python-ideas] Improve error message when missing 'self' in method definition

[Nathan Goldbaum]

On Wednesday, October 5, 2016, Yury Selivanov <yselivanov.ml at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On 2016-10-05 2:50 PM, Nathan Goldbaum wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Michel Desmoulin <
>> desmoulinmichel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> +1. Python does need better error messages. This and the recent new import
>>> exception will really help.
>>>
>>> Will feature freeze prevent this to get into 3.6 if some champion it?
>>>
>>> Speaking of, I'm not much of a C hacker, and messing with CPython
>> internals
>> is a little daunting. If anyone wants to take this on, you have my
>> blessing. I also may take a shot at implementing this idea in the next
>> couple weeks when I have some time.
>>
>
> It would help if you could create an issue and write exhaustive unittests
> (or at least specifying how exactly the patch should work for all corner
> cases).  Someone with the knowledge of CPython internals will later add the
> missing C code to the patch.


Good idea. I will make an attempt at this later this week, starting with
the tests that were added to pypy. For now I will focus on bound methods.


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