Alex Martelli wrote: > I disagree: I always recommend using %r to display (in an error > message, log entry, etc), a string that may be in error,
For debugging messages, yes, but not output produced in the normal course of operation. And "File Not Found" I consider to be in the latter category -- the user typed in the wrong file name, but it's still a string, and should be displayed to him as such. If it's not a string, the program will most likely fall over with a TypeError trying to open the file before it gets as far as constructing an IOError. -- 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
