From: Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 17:20:38 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Close SF bug 551673.  Backport Skip Montanaro's checkin of 2.112.
X-Git-Tag: v2.2.2b1~377
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=db581dfb02a3536568f21dae1f1eede3c12ef4e3;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Close SF bug 551673.  Backport Skip Montanaro's checkin of 2.112.
Clarifies message when raising TypeError to indicate that float() accepts
strings or numbers.
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diff --git a/Objects/floatobject.c b/Objects/floatobject.c
index 83987baa6b20..5fd13bcc1e83 100644
--- a/Objects/floatobject.c
+++ b/Objects/floatobject.c
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ PyFloat_FromString(PyObject *v, char **pend)
 #endif
 	else if (PyObject_AsCharBuffer(v, &s, &len)) {
 		PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError,
-				"float() needs a string argument");
+				"float() argument must be a string or a number");
 		return NULL;
 	}