From: Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 16:51:33 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: #6780: fix complex() constructor TypeError message
X-Git-Tag: v3.2b1~88
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f961377e9959fd04a4351316386f15e019e89ebb;p=python

#6780: fix complex() constructor TypeError message
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diff --git a/Objects/complexobject.c b/Objects/complexobject.c
index c47e0d3661..59997962ce 100644
--- a/Objects/complexobject.c
+++ b/Objects/complexobject.c
@@ -783,7 +783,7 @@ complex_subtype_from_string(PyTypeObject *type, PyObject *v)
     }
     else if (PyObject_AsCharBuffer(v, &s, &len)) {
         PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError,
-                        "complex() arg is not a string");
+                        "complex() argument must be a string or a number");
         return NULL;
     }