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Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> > Given how very often such decisions make my debugging tasks
> > needlessly difficult, I'm not seeing how that's a desirable feature.
>
> What Steven's actually advocating is removing a difference between
> Python code and native code.

Sure, but his proposal is to move in the direction of *less* debugging
information.

If I could have the traceback continue into the C code and tell me the
line of C code that raised the exception, *that's* what I'd choose.

The debugging information barrier of the C–Python boundary is a
practical limitation, not a desirable one. I think those barriers should
be as few as possible, and don't agree with enabling more of them.

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Ben Finney