Replace weird error message?

[Joel Goldstick]

can you show the complete code?  It doesn't start with "{:02} I don't think

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 2:34 PM, the.gerenuk--- via Python-list <
python-list at python.org> wrote:

> The following error message, makes it a bit hard to understand what went
> wrong
>
> >>> "{:02}".format("1")
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> ValueError: '=' alignment not allowed in string format specifier
>
> (this can happen easily if you read in text files and forget to convert)
>
> Do you think some better error message should be used?
>
> For example a hint that "0" does work for the given argument.
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