On 05 July 2000, Ka-Ping Yee said:
> How about this set of messages, then:
>
> SyntaxError: unexpected indent
> SyntaxError: unexpected unindent
How about "did not expect indent" and "did not expect unindent" -- reads
a little easier to my eyes.
> SyntaxError: expected indent
> SyntaxError: expected unindent
> SyntaxError: unindent did not match any outer indentation level
> SyntaxError: inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation
> SyntaxError: too many levels of indentation
Good.
> Hmm. For the record, the section of the reference manual about
> indentation talks about INDENT and DEDENT tokens. In fact i don't
> think there's any mention of the word "unindent" in the Python
> documentation. But outside of the Python docs, "unindent" is
> clearly a commonly used and understood term in general practice,
> much more so than "dedent".
I don't think too many newbies read the reference manual (or the parser
source, for that matter). Stick to clear, simple, plain-English terms
in error messages, even if they are different from (not inconsistent
with!) what's in the formal docs.
Greg
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