[issue11627] segfault raising an arbitrary object as an exception

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

Le lundi 21 mars 2011 à 22:57 +0000, Andreas Stührk a écrit :
> Andreas Stührk <andy-python at hammerhartes.de> added the comment:
> 
> Attached is a patch. I'm not too happy about the error message though,
> I think it's more confusing than helpful.

You could try something more explicit, such as
"calling %s() should have returned an instance of BaseException, not %s"
% (type, Py_TYPE(value))

By the way, you have a tab character in your patch. Please only use
spaces for indentation.

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