[Zope3-dev] Excessive long traceback info in TALES

[Guido van Rossum]

> Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> > It's clear that there are at least two audiences for these tracebacks,
> > the end user and the developer.  Developers are going to find Pythonic
> > tracebacks much easier to read, so they should be enabled in the cvs.
> 
> Really?  Jim says this too.  But I and everyone who sits near me prefers 
> module names over filenames.  This is as strange as the XML style 
> discussion we had a while back.  To me it's absolutely incredible that 
> anyone would prefer filenames over module names, and bulky XML 
> attributes over elements.

My critique of the traceback format wasn't about this issue, but I can
see the advantage of filenames: sometimes you get a module from a
different place than where you *think* you are getting it (due to
sys.path issues), and then the filename is an important clue.  Also,
the filename can be pasted more easily into an editor's "open file"
dialog.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)