Why not just show the out-of-range index?

[Robert Kern]

Bill Maxwell wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 23:31:56 -0500, Jean-Paul Calderone
> <exarkun at divmod.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 3 Dec 2006 17:23:49 -0800, Russ <uymqlp502 at sneakemail.com> wrote:
>>>> Rather, they (like I) will encourage to OP to submit a patch that fixes the problem.
>>> Now, that would be rather silly. I would have to familiarize myself
>>> with the code for the Python interpreter, then send a patch to the
>>> maintainers (and hope they notice it in their inboxes), while the
>>> maintainers themselves could probably "fix" the problem in two minutes
>>> flat. No thanks!
>> And I have some laundry that I would like you to do for me.  Let me know
>> when a convenient time for you to pick it up would be.
>>
>> Jean-Paul
> 
> Are you saying that you place such low value on feedback from Python
> users that you don't even want them to try and ask questions that might
> help to improve the language?
> 
> In other words, if I'm not skilled or knowledgeable enough to improve
> something myself, I shouldn't even mention it?

No one is castigating the OP for bringing up the issue. His suggestion that his
time is worth more than that of anyone else, though, is drawing some ire.
Fortunately, he seems to have backed off this position and seems amenable to
doing something more productive than posting here.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco