From: Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 23:36:46 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Issue #12342: Improve _tkinter error message on unencodable character
X-Git-Tag: v3.3.0a1~957^2
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7ab4192e82154e6d61b635f493ed6c36231614ad;p=python

Issue #12342: Improve _tkinter error message on unencodable character
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diff --git a/Modules/_tkinter.c b/Modules/_tkinter.c
index 672837f2b5..3608e2d993 100644
--- a/Modules/_tkinter.c
+++ b/Modules/_tkinter.c
@@ -993,8 +993,10 @@ AsObj(PyObject *value)
         for (i = 0; i < size; i++) {
             if (inbuf[i] >= 0x10000) {
                 /* Tcl doesn't do UTF-16, yet. */
-                PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError,
-                                "unsupported character");
+                PyErr_Format(PyExc_ValueError,
+                             "character U+%x is above the range "
+                             "(U+0000-U+FFFF) allowed by Tcl",
+                             inbuf[i]);
                 ckfree(FREECAST outbuf);
                 return NULL;
             }