15.07.2017, 18:33, "Chris Angelico" <ros...@gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 10:12 AM, Jeff Walker <jeff.walke...@yandex.com>
> wrote:
>> The first problem is that there is no direct access to the components that
>> make up the error in some of the standard Python exceptions.
>>
>> >>> foo
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>> NameError: name 'foo' is not defined
>>
>> If you need access to the name, you must de-construct the error message. To
>> get direct access to the name, it would need to be passed to the exception
>> when raised. Why wasn't that done?
>
> Because it normally isn't needed. Can you give an example of where
> NameError could legitimately be raised from multiple causes?
For me it generally occurs when users are using Python to hold their actual
data. Python can be used as a data format in much the same way JSON or Yaml.
And if the end user is familiar with Python, it provides many nice benefits
over the alternatives. I tend to use it in this fashion a great deal,
particularly for configuration information. In these case, it would be nice to
be able access the 'participants' in the following exceptions:
NameError (offending name)
KeyError (collection, offending key)
IndexError (collection, offending index)
Jeff
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