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Paths should be repr'ed in exceptions

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python

Research direction

Start by locating the exception formatting for missing files and inspect how the path from the reported example is rendered. Confirm the desired representation for paths containing spaces, then add coverage for the exception message and verify that the path is shown in repr form.

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Description

E.g.: FileNotFound: No such file or directory: /Users/julian/Library/Application Support/great/config.toml

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Python
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