[Zope3-dev] Excessive long traceback info in TALES

Barry A. Warsaw barry@zope.com
Tue, 10 Dec 2002 14:17:11 -0500


>>>>> "SH" == Shane Hathaway <shane@zope.com> writes:

    >> 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.

    SH> Really?  Jim says this too.  But I and everyone who sits near
    SH> me prefers module names over filenames.  This is as strange as
    SH> the XML style discussion we had a while back.  To me it's
    SH> absolutely incredible that anyone would prefer filenames over
    SH> module names, and bulky XML attributes over elements.

I guess my question then is whether you'd prefer module names over
file names for regular Python traceback?  What I find the most jarring
is the dissimilarity of the two traceback styles.  I'm used to
deciphering Python tracebacks, and I'd like to see Zope3's tracebacks
as similar to that as possible.

-Barry