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On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 2:48 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 02:31 pm, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 2:04 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thursday, December 31, 2015 at 9:05:58 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano
>>> wrote:
>>>> But I think it is a real issue. I believe in beautiful tracebacks that
>>>> give you just the right amount of information, neither too little nor
>>>> two much. Debugging is hard enough with being given more information
>>>> than you need and having to decide what bits to ignore and which are
>>>> important.
>>>
>>>
>>> It would be nice if the tutorial (FAQ? Lang-Ref??) had a section on how
>>> to wade tracebacks
>>
>> Hmm, I don't think that's a language reference question. It's more
>> something that I would put into a series of blog posts.
>
> Or the tutorial, like Rustom suggested :-)

Not sure it really belongs there; the tutorial tends to keep to short
and un-nested pieces of code, where this kind of technique really
comes into its own with dozen-line tracebacks. The FAQ could have a
link to it, but honestly, the best python.org place I can think of is
the wiki. It's not something that has a single straight-forward
answer; it's "when you're staring at this much info, here are some
ideas for boiling it down to what matters".

ChrisA