[Python-ideas] namedtuple nit...

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Thu Jul 27 21:53:08 EDT 2017


On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 05:09:56PM -0700, Mike Miller wrote:
> I've never liked that error message either:
> 
>     >>> object().foo = 'bar'
>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>       File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>     AttributeError: 'object' object has no attribute 'foo'
> 
> 
> Should say the "object is immutable," not writable, or something of the 
> sort.

Then put in a feature request on the bug tracker. It shouldn't require a 
week's discussion on Python-Ideas to improve an error message.



-- 
Steve


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