From: Marc-André Lemburg <mal@egenix.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:47:04 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Jeremy Hylton:
X-Git-Tag: v2.0b1~902
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=566d8a64eb4f51510dd17df8a478e7c0c10ec498;p=python

Jeremy Hylton:
better error message for unicode coercion failure
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diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index 7737057614..f10b8002a8 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;
     }