2013/11/14 Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov>: > So a proposal: > > Use 'replace" mode for the encoding to the default, and at least the > user would see SOMETHING of the message. In a common case, it would be > a lot of ascii, and in the worse case it would be a lot of question > marks -- still better than a totally blank message. > > Another option would be to use the str(repr(the_message)) so the user > would get the escaped version. Though I think that would be more ugly.
Unfortunately both of these things change behavior so cannot be changed in Python 2.7. > > What am I missing? This seems so obvious, and easy to do (though maybe > it's buried in the C implementation of Exceptions) -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
