On 2/9/2013 6:23 PM, Greg Ewing wrote: > Terry Reedy wrote: >> I agree. Since the exception type is not documented and since no one >> should intentionally pass anything but strings, and therefore should >> not be writing >> >> try: >> os.path.join(a,b) >> except AttributeError: >> barf() >> >> I think it would be acceptable to make a change in 3.4. > > Why should we go out of our way to address this particular > case, and not any of the infinitely many other situations > where you could forget to add parens to a function call? >
I agree we do not want to go down this slippery slope. The number of such places in the standard library is huge. The existing error message is one that a user should be able to understand, since it's so common. -- Eric. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
