Will Stuyvesant wrote:
Perhaps this will even be a useful thread, to brighten the
life of the brave people doing the hard work of providing us
with error messages.
My first one (i'm learning, i'm learning) is
TypeError: 'callable-iterator' object is not callable
# >>> it = iter(lambda:0, 0)
# >>> it()
# TypeError: 'callable-iterator' object is not callable
Given that the supposed humour depends on the *name* of
the object, which is "callable-iterator", I'd say it's
probably not hard to come up with lots of "funny" error
messages this way.
For example:
>>> def a():
... print is_not
... is_not = 0
...
>>> a()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "<stdin>", line 2, in a
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'is_not' referenced before assignment
My funny bone must be broken today, though, because I don't
see these as very funny...
(Did you understand *why* you got your error?
You don't call iterators, you call .next() on them...)
-Peter
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