"Invalid literal for int() with base 10": is it really a literal?

[Roel Schroeven]

Op 26/05/2023 om 10:29 schreef Chris Angelico:
> However, if you want to change the wording, I'd be more inclined to
> synchronize it with float():
>
> >>> float("a")
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> ValueError: could not convert string to float: 'a'
>
I was looking for other ValueError-generating functions to find 
potentially better wording, and I somehow failed to think of float(), so 
thank you for mentioning it :) The ones I could think of were math 
functions like math.sqrt(); they give "ValueError: math domain error" 
which is rather less user friendly.

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