Showing the method's class in expection's traceback

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Richard G Riley a écrit :
> Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.42.desthuilliers at websiteburo.invalid> writes:
> 
>> Richard G Riley a écrit :
>>> Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.42.desthuilliers at websiteburo.invalid> writes:
>> (snip)
>>
>>>> And not that useful - why would one care about the function being
>>>> defined in class X or Y when one have the exact file and line ?
>>> Very obvious I would think. One can develop ones own interactive class
>>> browser and code navigator.
>> From the traceback ?
>>
>>>  One can not bring up class help from "line 3
>>> in x.py" but one can from "classname : MyClass at line 2 in z.py". With
>>> the class name I can navigate directly to all sorts of class related
>>> information without the need to delve into a physical usage of it e.g
>>> program.py at line 3.
>> Please bear with me, but I'm afraid I still don't get the point : I
>> don't need tracebacks to get to some object's info (help etc).
> 
> This is a view quite common to people when they are happy with what they
> have. Some like to improve what they have. It is immediately apparent to
> me why having a class name and method name in the traceback would be
> immediately useful.

Then please explain.

> Having written a few extensions to IDEs in the past
> I know it would help me,

To do what ?