+1 I've definitely seen a lot of new users make this error, an improved message could go a long way.
On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 1:52 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Recently pypy received a patch that improves the error message one gets > when 'self' is missing in a method's signature: > > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/pypy-dev/2016-September/014678.html > > Here are the commits that implement the change in pypy: > > https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/commits/all?search= > branch(better-error-missing-self) > > I'm curious whether a similar improvement would also be received well in > CPython. In particular, this guides one to the correct solution for a > common programming mistake made by newcomers (and even not-so-newcomers). > > Here is a case study that found this was a common source of errors for > newcomers: > > http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2960327 > > -Nathan > > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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