[Python-Dev] Q: is concatenation and append really the same thing?
Michael Hudson
mwh21@cam.ac.uk
16 Jun 2000 17:53:42 +0100
"Fredrik Lundh" <effbot@telia.com> writes:
> Python 1.6a2 (#0, Jun 14 2000, 23:07:49) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
> >>> (1, 2, 3) + [1, 2, 3]
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> TypeError: can only append tuple (not "list") to tuple
>
> is "append" really the right word here?
My fault. I have sent at least one patch to patches@python.org to
change it to
can only concatenate tuple (not "list") to tuple
to bring it into line with listobject.c; here it is again:
Index: Objects/tupleobject.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Objects/tupleobject.c,v
retrieving revision 2.34
diff -u -r2.34 tupleobject.c
--- Objects/tupleobject.c 2000/06/01 03:12:13 2.34
+++ Objects/tupleobject.c 2000/06/06 16:30:39
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@
PyTupleObject *np;
if (!PyTuple_Check(bb)) {
PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError,
- "can only append tuple (not \"%.200s\") to tuple",
+ "can only concatenate tuple (not \"%.200s\") to tuple",
bb->ob_type->tp_name);
return NULL;
}
HTH, HAND,
Michael