From: Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 13:03:22 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: clarify message when raising TypeError to indicate that float() accepts
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~5749
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=71390a9a941c3c84ee48afde6445d4d65396b137;p=python

clarify message when raising TypeError to indicate that float() accepts
strings or numbers
---

diff --git a/Objects/floatobject.c b/Objects/floatobject.c
index 83987baa6b..5fd13bcc1e 100644
--- a/Objects/floatobject.c
+++ b/Objects/floatobject.c
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ PyFloat_FromString(PyObject *v, char **pend)
 #endif
 	else if (PyObject_AsCharBuffer(v, &s, &len)) {
 		PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError,
-				"float() needs a string argument");
+				"float() argument must be a string or a number");
 		return NULL;
 	}