Re:This Is What Python Beginners Have to Deal With
by burntsushi on Thursday September 08, 2016 @07:36AM
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> I've never encountered the "X requires unstated requirement Y, which fails to build because of obscure compiler error" issue, I would have liked if the author named X and Y.
I maintain an open source Python project that tends to attract non-programmers or beginner programmers. This happens all the time. Case in point: https://github.com/BurntSushi/nfldb/issues/175
And that's a good case, because the error message is actually pretty nice compared to some others I've seen. But for a beginner user, learning to make the complete connection I wrote in my comment[1] on that thread is totally non-trivial.
I maintain an open source Python project that tends to attract non-programmers or beginner programmers. This happens all the time. Case in point: https://github.com/BurntSushi/nfldb/issues/175
And that's a good case, because the error message is actually pretty nice compared to some others I've seen. But for a beginner user, learning to make the complete connection I wrote in my comment[1] on that thread is totally non-trivial.
[1] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/nfldb/issues/175#issuecomment-...