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-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_str.py13
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_unicode.py11
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS3
-rw-r--r--Objects/stringobject.c12
-rw-r--r--Objects/unicodeobject.c13
5 files changed, 46 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_str.py b/Lib/test/test_str.py
index 4f88b28848..2ecf3276b4 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_str.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_str.py
@@ -414,7 +414,18 @@ class StrTest(
self.assertEqual('Andr\202 x'.decode('ascii', 'replace'),
'Andr\202 x'.decode(encoding='ascii', errors='replace'))
-
+ def test_startswith_endswith_errors(self):
+ with self.assertRaises(UnicodeDecodeError):
+ '\xff'.startswith(u'x')
+ with self.assertRaises(UnicodeDecodeError):
+ '\xff'.endswith(u'x')
+ for meth in ('foo'.startswith, 'foo'.endswith):
+ with self.assertRaises(TypeError) as cm:
+ meth(['f'])
+ exc = str(cm.exception)
+ self.assertIn('unicode', exc)
+ self.assertIn('str', exc)
+ self.assertIn('tuple', exc)
def test_main():
test_support.run_unittest(StrTest)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
index ae4c355f48..bd43dbc57b 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
@@ -442,6 +442,17 @@ class UnicodeTest(
return u'\u1234'
self.assertEqual('%s' % Wrapper(), u'\u1234')
+ def test_startswith_endswith_errors(self):
+ for meth in (u'foo'.startswith, u'foo'.endswith):
+ with self.assertRaises(UnicodeDecodeError):
+ meth('\xff')
+ with self.assertRaises(TypeError) as cm:
+ meth(['f'])
+ exc = str(cm.exception)
+ self.assertIn('unicode', exc)
+ self.assertIn('str', exc)
+ self.assertIn('tuple', exc)
+
@test_support.run_with_locale('LC_ALL', 'de_DE', 'fr_FR')
def test_format_float(self):
# should not format with a comma, but always with C locale
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index b1d078faf2..29169e7937 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ What's New in Python 2.7.2?
Core and Builtins
-----------------
+- Issue #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
+ accepted too.
+
- Issue #5057: fix a bug in the peepholer that led to non-portable pyc files
between narrow and wide builds while optimizing BINARY_SUBSCR on non-BMP
chars (e.g. u"\U00012345"[0]).
diff --git a/Objects/stringobject.c b/Objects/stringobject.c
index 373439bca1..693f7733d9 100644
--- a/Objects/stringobject.c
+++ b/Objects/stringobject.c
@@ -2918,8 +2918,12 @@ string_startswith(PyStringObject *self, PyObject *args)
Py_RETURN_FALSE;
}
result = _string_tailmatch(self, subobj, start, end, -1);
- if (result == -1)
+ if (result == -1) {
+ if (PyErr_ExceptionMatches(PyExc_TypeError))
+ PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError, "startswith first arg must be str, "
+ "unicode, or tuple, not %s", Py_TYPE(subobj)->tp_name);
return NULL;
+ }
else
return PyBool_FromLong(result);
}
@@ -2958,8 +2962,12 @@ string_endswith(PyStringObject *self, PyObject *args)
Py_RETURN_FALSE;
}
result = _string_tailmatch(self, subobj, start, end, +1);
- if (result == -1)
+ if (result == -1) {
+ if (PyErr_ExceptionMatches(PyExc_TypeError))
+ PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError, "endswith first arg must be str, "
+ "unicode, or tuple, not %s", Py_TYPE(subobj)->tp_name);
return NULL;
+ }
else
return PyBool_FromLong(result);
}
diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index 4098fb38ae..b2332a5360 100644
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -7666,8 +7666,12 @@ unicode_startswith(PyUnicodeObject *self,
Py_RETURN_FALSE;
}
substring = (PyUnicodeObject *)PyUnicode_FromObject(subobj);
- if (substring == NULL)
+ if (substring == NULL) {
+ if (PyErr_ExceptionMatches(PyExc_TypeError))
+ PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError, "startswith first arg must be str, "
+ "unicode, or tuple, not %s", Py_TYPE(subobj)->tp_name);
return NULL;
+ }
result = tailmatch(self, substring, start, end, -1);
Py_DECREF(substring);
return PyBool_FromLong(result);
@@ -7710,9 +7714,12 @@ unicode_endswith(PyUnicodeObject *self,
Py_RETURN_FALSE;
}
substring = (PyUnicodeObject *)PyUnicode_FromObject(subobj);
- if (substring == NULL)
+ if (substring == NULL) {
+ if (PyErr_ExceptionMatches(PyExc_TypeError))
+ PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError, "endswith first arg must be str, "
+ "unicode, or tuple, not %s", Py_TYPE(subobj)->tp_name);
return NULL;
-
+ }
result = tailmatch(self, substring, start, end, +1);
Py_DECREF(substring);
return PyBool_FromLong(result);