Error message

[Michael Hudson]

"John W. Baxter" <jwbnews at scandaroon.com> writes:

> We've been muttering about error messages lately (partly in connection 
> with the case threads).
> 
> TypeError:  not enough arguments for format string
> 
> The most recent time I encountered this, the actual error was:
> 
> TypeError:  too much format string for arguments
> 
> (I had put one too many %... thingies into the string for the data I 
> wanted to deal with.)
> 
> I'm just musing...I don't see a need for any changes here.


I particularly hate:

   TypeError: illegal argument type for built-in operation

It just tells you nothing.  I've been meaning to whip round the Python
sources and replace all the calls to PyErr_BadArgument (for 'tis that
that gives the above message) with something a little more helpful,
but I haven't got round to it yet...

Cheers,
M.

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