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Diffstat (limited to 'Python')
| -rw-r--r-- | Python/ceval.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Python/ceval.c b/Python/ceval.c index f72fe4ae02..6dd370f5f7 100644 --- a/Python/ceval.c +++ b/Python/ceval.c @@ -3260,8 +3260,9 @@ do_raise(PyObject *type, PyObject *value, PyObject *tb) /* Not something you can raise. You get an exception anyway, just not what you specified :-) */ PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError, - "exceptions must be classes or instances, not %s", - type->ob_type->tp_name); + "exceptions must be old-style classes or " + "derived from BaseException, not %s", + type->ob_type->tp_name); goto raise_error; } |