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authorMarc-André Lemburg <mal@egenix.com>2000-07-11 09:47:04 (GMT)
committerMarc-André Lemburg <mal@egenix.com>2000-07-11 09:47:04 (GMT)
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Jeremy Hylton:
better error message for unicode coercion failure
Diffstat (limited to 'Objects/unicodeobject.c')
-rw-r--r--Objects/unicodeobject.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index 7737057..f10b800 100644
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -406,8 +406,10 @@ PyObject *PyUnicode_FromEncodedObject(register PyObject *obj,
/* Overwrite the error message with something more useful in
case of a TypeError. */
if (PyErr_ExceptionMatches(PyExc_TypeError))
- PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError,
- "coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer");
+ PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError,
+ "coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, "
+ "%.80s found",
+ obj->ob_type->tp_name);
goto onError;
}