safer ctype? (was GUIs - A modest Proposal)
Gregory Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Jun 12 23:26:35 EDT 2010
> On Jun 12, 6:05 pm, Stephen Hansen <me+list/pyt... at ixokai.io> wrote:
>>A programming goof, oversight or unexpected event causes an exception.
>>It doesn't cause a buffer overflow.
The important thing here isn't so much the exception as
the *traceback*.
When you've been programming in Python for a while, it's
easy to forget how much help the traceback is in tracking
down bugs. Suddenly being faced with having to do without
one comes as a rude shock.
--
Greg
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