The message for the exception when time.strptime was passed something other

than str did not output the type of the argument but the object itself.

diff --git a/Lib/_strptime.py b/Lib/_strptime.py
index 9ff29bce8f7678c7ba3ac3b5f6f03ae340cd1c99..ee30b4216c25c8fa9825d8f13fc0ccdbefd15575 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/_strptime.py
+++ b/Lib/_strptime.py
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ def _strptime(data_string, format="%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y"):
     for index, arg in enumerate([data_string, format]):
         if not isinstance(arg, str):
             msg = "strptime() argument {} must be str, not {}"
-            raise TypeError(msg.format(arg, index))
+            raise TypeError(msg.format(index, type(arg)))
 
     global _TimeRE_cache, _regex_cache
     with _cache_lock: