From: Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 01:14:15 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Issue #25326:  Improve an obscure error message.
X-Git-Tag: v2.7.11rc1~74
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9c90e255e02b493de6c792fc1fb92a44e202ebd3;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Issue #25326:  Improve an obscure error message.
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diff --git a/Objects/abstract.c b/Objects/abstract.c
index 6e289eff6eda..ad7889e15efb 100644
--- a/Objects/abstract.c
+++ b/Objects/abstract.c
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ PyObject_AsCharBuffer(PyObject *obj,
          pb->bf_getcharbuffer == NULL ||
          pb->bf_getsegcount == NULL) {
         PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError,
-                        "expected a character buffer object");
+                        "expected a string or other character buffer object");
         return -1;
     }
     if ((*pb->bf_getsegcount)(obj,NULL) != 1) {