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authorXtreak <tirkarthi@users.noreply.github.com>2018-07-22 20:13:26 (GMT)
committerRaymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com>2018-07-22 20:13:26 (GMT)
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bpo-34127: Fix grammar in error message with respect to argument count (GH-8395)
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_call.py16
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2018-07-22-14-58-06.bpo-34127.qkfnHO.rst2
-rw-r--r--Python/getargs.c8
3 files changed, 22 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_call.py b/Lib/test/test_call.py
index 3f9987c..ec9697a 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_call.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_call.py
@@ -143,6 +143,22 @@ class CFunctionCallsErrorMessages(unittest.TestCase):
msg = r"^from_bytes\(\) takes at most 2 positional arguments \(3 given\)"
self.assertRaisesRegex(TypeError, msg, int.from_bytes, b'a', 'little', False)
+ def test_varargs4(self):
+ msg = r"get expected at least 1 argument, got 0"
+ self.assertRaisesRegex(TypeError, msg, {}.get)
+
+ def test_varargs5(self):
+ msg = r"getattr expected at least 2 arguments, got 0"
+ self.assertRaisesRegex(TypeError, msg, getattr)
+
+ def test_varargs6(self):
+ msg = r"input expected at most 1 argument, got 2"
+ self.assertRaisesRegex(TypeError, msg, input, 1, 2)
+
+ def test_varargs7(self):
+ msg = r"get expected at most 2 arguments, got 3"
+ self.assertRaisesRegex(TypeError, msg, {}.get, 1, 2, 3)
+
def test_varargs1_kw(self):
msg = r"__contains__\(\) takes no keyword arguments"
self.assertRaisesRegex(TypeError, msg, {}.__contains__, x=2)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2018-07-22-14-58-06.bpo-34127.qkfnHO.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2018-07-22-14-58-06.bpo-34127.qkfnHO.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c5b8c07
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2018-07-22-14-58-06.bpo-34127.qkfnHO.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Return grammatically correct error message based on argument count.
+Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.
diff --git a/Python/getargs.c b/Python/getargs.c
index 992cb21..98823f2 100644
--- a/Python/getargs.c
+++ b/Python/getargs.c
@@ -2411,8 +2411,8 @@ unpack_stack(PyObject *const *args, Py_ssize_t nargs, const char *name,
if (name != NULL)
PyErr_Format(
PyExc_TypeError,
- "%.200s expected %s%zd arguments, got %zd",
- name, (min == max ? "" : "at least "), min, nargs);
+ "%.200s expected %s%zd argument%s, got %zd",
+ name, (min == max ? "" : "at least "), min, min == 1 ? "" : "s", nargs);
else
PyErr_Format(
PyExc_TypeError,
@@ -2430,8 +2430,8 @@ unpack_stack(PyObject *const *args, Py_ssize_t nargs, const char *name,
if (name != NULL)
PyErr_Format(
PyExc_TypeError,
- "%.200s expected %s%zd arguments, got %zd",
- name, (min == max ? "" : "at most "), max, nargs);
+ "%.200s expected %s%zd argument%s, got %zd",
+ name, (min == max ? "" : "at most "), max, max == 1 ? "" : "s", nargs);
else
PyErr_Format(
PyExc_TypeError,