Re: Location of an Error Message

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From	Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date	2015-09-02 15:23 -0600
Subject	Re: Location of an Error Message
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On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 1:30 PM,  <stehlampen@arcor.de> wrote:
> Where are the error messages stored? E. g., in which (source code) file is the message "NameError: name 'sdfe' is not defined" stored (except for variable arguments like "sdfe")? I do know that I can throw exceptions for myself, but this question came to my mind in thinking about translating the error messages to improve Python's learning curve for newbies.

Grepping the source turns up this:

https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/tip/Python/ceval.c#l150

> Additionally, I would be grateful if you would give to me the file name (e. g. in hg.python.org) which is the Interpreter's first piece of source code which deals with the error strings.

What do you mean by "first"? I don't think the error messages are
centralized anywhere.

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Re: Location of an Error Message Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 15:23 -0600

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