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javcasas • today at 1:40 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

> When an AttributeError on a builtin type has no close match via Levenshtein distance, the error message now checks a static table of common method names from other languages (JavaScript, Java, Ruby, C#) and suggests the Python equivalent

Oh, that is such a nice thing.

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fulafel • today at 4:26 PM

It's unrelated to the lazy keyword. Instead it's another feature related to error messages.

The example:

  >> 'hello'.toUpperCase()
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  ...
  AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'toUpperCase'. Did you mean '.upper'?
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embedding-shape • today at 4:03 PM

Now I'm wishing for a single cross-language library, that I can somehow inject into every compiler/runtime/checker to get this, but with a single source of truth and across a wide range of languages. I hit this damn issue all the time, writing code in one language for another, would truly be a bliss to have that problem solved once and for all.

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