[New-bugs-announce] [issue30534] error message for incorrect call degraded in 3.7

[Stefan Behnel]

New submission from Stefan Behnel:

I'm seeing doctest failures in Cython's test suite with Py3.7 due to the change of an error message:

Failed example:
    func1(arg=None)
Expected:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
    TypeError: func1() takes no keyword arguments
Got:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/opt/python/3.7-dev/lib/python3.7/doctest.py", line 1329, in __run
        compileflags, 1), test.globs)
      File "<doctest always_allow_keywords_T295.func1[2]>", line 1, in <module>
        func1(arg=None)
    TypeError: func1() takes exactly one argument (0 given)

I'd normally just adapt the doctest and move on, but this seems like the error message is worse than before, so I thought I'd bring it up here. func1() is implemented as a METH_O C function. Suggesting that it does not accept keyword arguments seems better than saying that it expects "exactly one argument" instead of the exactly one argument that was passed.

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 294906
nosy: scoder
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: error message for incorrect call degraded in 3.7
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.7

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