Issue #22077: Improve index error messages for bytearrays, bytes, lists, and

tuples by adding 'or slices'. Added ', not <typename' for bytearrays.
Original patch by Claudiu Popa.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/list_tests.py b/Lib/test/list_tests.py
index 42e118b..9069337 100644
--- a/Lib/test/list_tests.py
+++ b/Lib/test/list_tests.py
@@ -30,6 +30,12 @@ class CommonTest(seq_tests.CommonTest):
         self.assertNotEqual(id(a), id(b))
         self.assertEqual(a, b)
 
+    def test_getitem_error(self):
+        msg = "list indices must be integers or slices"
+        with self.assertRaisesRegex(TypeError, msg):
+            a = []
+            a['a'] = "python"
+
     def test_repr(self):
         l0 = []
         l2 = [0, 1, 2]
@@ -120,6 +126,10 @@ class CommonTest(seq_tests.CommonTest):
         a[-1] = 9
         self.assertEqual(a, self.type2test([5,6,7,8,9]))
 
+        msg = "list indices must be integers or slices"
+        with self.assertRaisesRegex(TypeError, msg):
+            a['a'] = "python"
+
     def test_delitem(self):
         a = self.type2test([0, 1])
         del a[1]