[Grok-dev] better error messages

Sebastian Ware sebastian at urbantalk.se
Sat May 10 06:52:11 EDT 2008


9 maj 2008 kl. 15.19 skrev Peter Bengtsson:

>>>
>>> (2) Therefore, if we detect an error and can simply print out "you
>>>    have a Foo view in app.py but no foo.pt template", then we
>>>    should; a traceback into Grok's correctly-working (!) code that
>>>    it executed to produce the error is irrelevant.  Heck, even if
>>>    it *is* a bug in Grok that caused the message, the traceback is
>>>    probably irrelevant, since the bit grokking logic that went
>>>    wrong is probably long done by then! :-)
>>>
> +1
>
>
> In fact I think there are plenty other errors that could be
> "grokified" to better help junior developers (aka. "django users").
> Especially nasty are those that aren't pythonic where the last 20
> lines the traceback is about something in a ZCML file.
>

I have had quite a number of those questions in the past... :) Let me  
know if you want a listing of cases that I have run into.

Mvh Sebastian



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