Wish there was an error message

[Alain TESIO]

On Sat, 03 Feb 2001 00:39:57 -0000, kwasi007uk at yahoo.co.uk wrote:

>I was using poplib's example as in the documentation. Unfortunately I 
>typed in the following at the end of the script:
>
>M.quit instead of M.quit()!
>
>I forgot the parenthesis. The effect was, that my pop-server produced 
>really strange things, doubled the number of messages each time I 
>queried it with poplib.
>
>But M.quit does not exist. So it should give me an error message? Why 
>doesn't it? Can I turn it on somehow?
>

You get the function object, like for this :

x=1
x

This syntax is useful for interactive use if you want to know what is in an object, but
for non-interactive scripts I don't see what is the interest, maybe an option to turn
raise an error would help.

Alain