From: Jeremy Hylton <jeremy@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 02:25:33 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: improved error message-- names the type of the unexpected object
X-Git-Tag: v2.2a3~1952
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=960d948e7ce536eb30b69add0c6fc2dc31c90a8e;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

improved error message-- names the type of the unexpected object
---

diff --git a/Python/ceval.c b/Python/ceval.c
index d5e3a4e9a16d..df160f2cc35d 100644
--- a/Python/ceval.c
+++ b/Python/ceval.c
@@ -2493,8 +2493,9 @@ do_raise(PyObject *type, PyObject *value, PyObject *tb)
 	else {
 		/* Not something you can raise.  You get an exception
 		   anyway, just not what you specified :-) */
-		PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError,
-		    "exceptions must be strings, classes, or instances");
+		PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError,
+			     "exceptions must be strings, classes, or "
+			     "instances, not %s", type->ob_type->tp_name);
 		goto raise_error;
 	}
 	PyErr_Restore(type, value, tb);