Raymond Hettinger wrote: > The worst part of the new user experience is encountering a > SyntaxError. Because of the way we generate them, invalid > syntax errors are not very informative
This seems like an argument for producing more informative error messages. Something like Syntax error: Numeric literal with leading zeroes is ambiguous. Use 0t123 for an octal literal, or omit the leading zeroes for a decimal literal. should make it pretty clear what the problem is and how to fix it. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
