Bruno's Blog

Introduction I was writing a new Python script (actually, a replacement for a bash script) at work today. I have a Windows laptop at work and in my projects and I often do development on Windows but the real objective is for the scripts and other work to run in a Unix system running under VirtualBox and Vagrant. To be exact, the system is: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.13.0-143-generic x86_64) Anyway, I was writing away and it worked ok up to a point on Windows but it needed resources on the Unix system so you might say it failed miserably but I was ready to try it on the virtual machine. When I tried, I got: (venv) vagrant@vagrant-host:/vagrant$ bruno/foobar.py --foo : No such file or directory (venv) vagrant@vagrant-host:/vagrant$ What the hell? That's a terrible error message. As an aside, I think some Python error messages can be awful and don't do a good job at fixing the problem. I think Python is a superb language but its error messages are not always ...