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Petteri Räty wrote:
> Jason Stubbs wrote:
>
>>>Not sure if hiding the exception away (traceback) is a good thing;
>>>wrapping it with purdy output, sure, but swallowing it?
>>
>>
>>If it's failing to import, there's something pretty wrong with it. I'm sure
>>that module authors will know enough to remove the except block. Is there
>>really anything useful gained from dumping the traceback?
>>
>>--
>>Jason Stubbs
>
>
> Well emerge does have a --debug flag under which to dump everything you
> want. Tracebacks might also be included under the --verbose flag. IMHO
> tracebacks should in most cases be replaced by user understandable
> errors messages in such a way that the tracebacks are still easily
> available if wanted.
>
> Regards,
> Petteri
I would prefer both tbh, which sucks because it's more work :P You have
to generally catch the exception, print an error message, and then raise
it again ( or just print the tb, your choice ). That way the user knows
that we probably guessed that exception would be thrown at one point,
and we can provide actual instructions while still having a traceback to
tell us what the hell is going on.
Woe is me when they report the bug and the code is just like
writemsg("!!! Error portage sucks!")
sys.exit()
....Great, that message probably isn't unique and now their problem
could be in 5 different places in the code, and I get to guess where :/
sys.exit--
- -Alec Warner (antarus)
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