New submission from STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com>: b'abc'.partition(':') raises a confusing TypeError('expected an object with the buffer interface'): what is a buffer? what is the buffer interface?
The error comes from PyObject_AsCharBuffer() which is used by: - bytes methods: partition, rpartition, find, index, rfind, rindex, count, translate, replace, startswith, endswith - complex(): raise a better but incomplete error message on error ("complex() arg is not a string"), incomplete because number is not mentionned - float(): raise a better error message on error ("float() argument must be a string or a number") - PyArg_Parse*() with the "e" format -> posix.spawnvpe(), imp.load_compiled(), imp.load_source(), imp.load_package() The error message should be changed to something mentioning classic Python terms. Eg. TypeError("expected bytes, bytearray or buffer compatible object"). ---------- components: Interpreter Core messages: 123263 nosy: haypo priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Change PyObject_AsCharBuffer() error message versions: Python 3.1, Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10616> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com