[Python-Dev] Critique of PEP 657

2021-06-30 Thread Mark Shannon
Hi, Apologies for my tardiness in doing this, but no one explicitly said it was too late to critique PEP 657... Critique of PEP 657 (Include Fine Grained Error Locations in Tracebacks) First of all I want to say that I

[Python-Dev] Critique of PEP 657 -- Include Fine Grained Error Locations in Tracebacks

2021-05-17 Thread Mark Shannon
Hi everyone, I fully agree with the rationale for the PEP, better error messages always help. However, I think the proposed implementation could be misleading in some cases and wastes memory. Use one position, not one-and-a-half positions. --- The