Obscure Exception message

[Andrew M. Kuchling]

"Daley, MarkX" <markx.daley at intel.com> writes:
> TypeError: string member test needs char left operand
> I have no idea what this is telling me, although the 'char' comment makes me
> wish I had a flamethrower!

Good point.  Hmm... how about:
TypeError: in <string> requires character as left operand

In the above message, <string> isn't the contents of the string
involved, but the actual literal '<string>'.

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