From: Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:31:55 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: get_payload(): Improve the TypeError message when the payload isn't of
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~501
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6754d52521f597caf3adae1b59d8d8bfbc18fbce;p=python

get_payload(): Improve the TypeError message when the payload isn't of
the expected type.  In response to SF #751451.
---

diff --git a/Lib/email/Message.py b/Lib/email/Message.py
index 0f513f5498..6dfa84b446 100644
--- a/Lib/email/Message.py
+++ b/Lib/email/Message.py
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ class Message:
         if i is None:
             payload = self._payload
         elif not isinstance(self._payload, ListType):
-            raise TypeError, i
+            raise TypeError, 'Expected list, got %s' % type(self._payload)
         else:
             payload = self._payload[i]
         if decode: