Re: Proposal: Nice(r) error messages when a user-provided module fails to load

2010-06-03 Thread Charlie Nolan
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 4:38 AM, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > [...] > Regarding #13480 specifically -- I haven't dug into the problem in > detail, but the approach of telling exceptions apart by inspecting the > number of arguments doesn't fill me with joy. One of the changes in > 1.2 was to improv

Re: Proposal: Nice(r) error messages when a user-provided module fails to load

2010-06-02 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Charlie Nolan wrote: > It was suggested in bug #13480 that I raise this issue "during the 1.3 > feature discussion phase", which we seem to have entered. > > Essentially, the issue is that a typo in my_app/views.py or any of its > dependencies can raise an error on

Proposal: Nice(r) error messages when a user-provided module fails to load

2010-06-01 Thread Charlie Nolan
It was suggested in bug #13480 that I raise this issue "during the 1.3 feature discussion phase", which we seem to have entered. Essentially, the issue is that a typo in my_app/views.py or any of its dependencies can raise an error on module import and break the entire site, leaving the user with