Another alternative is instead of
File blah.py line 3:
return x/0
^^^
to have
File blah.py line 3 cols 12-14:
x/0
On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 11:12 AM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info>
wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 05:34:12AM -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
> > On 5/10/2021 3:28 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> >
> > >I'm mostly thinking of tracebacks which go >10 levels deep, which is
> > >rather common in larger applications. For those tracebacks, the top
> > >entries are mostly noise you never look at when debugging. The proposal
> > >now adds another 10 extra lines to jump over :-)
> >
> > If the slice were instead marked with color tagging, as I hope will be
> > possible in IDLE and other IDEs, then no extra lines well be needed
>
> That's great for people using IDLE, but for those using the vanilla
> Python interpreter, M-A.L makes a good point about increasing the
> vertical size of the traceback which will almost always be ignored.
>
> Its especially the case for beginners. Its hard enough to get newbies to
> read *any* of the traceback. Anything which increases the visual noise
> of that is going to make it harder.
>
>
> --
> Steve
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