James Stroud wrote: > Russ wrote: >> Every Python programmer gets this message occasionally: >> >> IndexError: list index out of range >> >> The message tells you where the error occurred, but it doesn't tell you >> what the range and the offending index are. Why does it force you to >> determine that information for yourself when it could save you a step >> and just tell you? This seems like a "no-brainer" to me. Am I missing >> something? > > I think you have a point. I am curious to see how far people are willing > to go to defend this omission. It promises to be entertaining.
I'm not sure that anybody is going to defend it as a deliberate omission. Rather, they (like I) will encourage to OP to submit a patch that fixes the problem. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
