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TypeError: Descriptors cannot not be created directly.
The chance that one won't not misunderstand that error is not very low.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I was reminded recently of a message I used to give...
What part of "failed" don't you understand?
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:YadaVoice:
TypeError: cannot, not be created directly, Descriptors.
Maybe they should have gone all out with...
TypeError: Descriptors cannot NOT! be created directly, NOT!. syke!
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Back in the day, our Data General Fortran 77 compiler would issue this error at random times.
"Unknown error code 43". If it is unknown how did it get a number, was the mystery. It happened sometimes at compile time and sometimes during program execution.
We worked in the University computer lab and so made this message a sign we posted in the lab.
Created all sorts of confusion and interest. We never solved it. Even Data General had no answer.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Have you tried to escalate to Data Secretary of Defense?
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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General was the highest rank with the maximum punishment authority.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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PUNishment 
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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BDOS ERROR ON A: ABORT RETRY CANCEL?
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That's the prize for using python...
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." ― Albert Einstein
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You're simply unable to can 
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"Error 0: The operation completed successfully"
Err, what?
Paul Sanders.
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter - Blaise Pascal.
Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.
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in the good old days the C64 BASIC might greet you with a:
?FORMULA TOO COMPLEX ERROR
READY.
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Delphi 7 debugger can tell us how much is x, but can not tell how much is x-100.
"Expression too complex"
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I smell auto-correct.
Software Zen: delete this;
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 Umm, sure, makes perfect sense!
=Descriptors can be created directly. Lots of stuff can! Maybe 'must' was just a bit to authoritarian, lol.
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I never seem to get helpful error messages from Microsoft products. The last error message I remember getting from Windows was: "Something went wrong".
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I think my favourite of all time was from a COBOL compiler on a Prime, back in 1989 or something:
"Error 23 line 72 column 25 severity 3: Fatal. Either an IF is missing or an ELSE is missing or a THEN is missing or a period is missing or the compiler is broken."
By "broken" I think it meant the user pressed Break, but it was still funny.
And then, there's always the old Unix one when a recursive process never exited: "Panic: Heap Glutton!"
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When I was first learning COBOL at university back in 1972, we used a CDC 6400 system. Its COBOL compiler would occasionally emit the message "Compiler lost place, attempting recovery." We used to refer to the compiler as the "do or die system" as it would try to compile even the worst, error-filled code.
Nine years later, I became the Canadian Government representative to the CODASYL COBOL Committee, the developers of the language. The Chairman of the Committee at that time was Don Nelson, from CDC. Over a beer one night at my first meeting, I made a comment about that error message. Don burst out laughing and said, "I put that message in the compiler!"
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You don't know what you're missing!
*hides*
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Peggy : Hi Honey, did you miss me?
Al : With every bullet so far.
There is only one Vera Farmiga and Salma Hayek is her prophet!
Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.
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Did you really remember that that was posted more than 4 years ago? I'm impressed!
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4? and longer...
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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