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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:02:52 -0400
From: Dave Angel <davea@davea.name>
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On 06/11/2013 03:48 PM, Laurent Pointal wrote:
> Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 18:17:33 -0700, Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com>
>> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
>>
>>      <SNIP>
>
>> The C compiler suites used this ability to read the error log from a
>> compile, and move to the line/column in the source file associated with
>> each error. (Before "integrated" development environments)
>
> This is a + for compiled environments that you effectively cannot have with
> Python, non-syntaxic errors found at runtime.
>

Sure.  I think they're usually called exceptions.  And lo and behold, 
they come with filenames and line numbers.



-- 
DaveA