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On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 19:58:41 -0600, Michael Torrie wrote:
>
>> On 03/16/2013 06:11 PM, Rick Johnson wrote:
>>> No, the "ACTUAL PROBLEM" is in the author.
>>
>> Surely any NameException can also be blamed on the author then, by your
>> logic?
>
> Any exception at all is obviously the author's fault. I propose that
> Python stops wasting our time with debugging information and tracebacks,
> and on any error, simply prints the following message then dump core:
>
>
> PEBKACError: Programmer is an idiot. You did something wrong, you moron,
> turn your computer off, you're obviously too stupid to program.
>
>
> That will certainly improve productivity.
>
> --
> Steven

Don't have it dump core. Have it print a pink slip to the default printer.