On 2013年11月16日 00:46:15 +1000 Nick Coghlan <[email protected]> wrote: > On 16 November 2013 00:04, Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Rather than the more useful: > >> > >> >>> b"abcdef".decode("hex") > >> Traceback (most recent call last): > >> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > >> TypeError: 'hex' decoder returned 'bytes' instead of 'str'; use > >> codecs.decode() to decode to arbitrary types > > > > I think this may be confusing. TypeError seems to suggest that the > > parameter type sent by the user to the method is wrong, which is not > > the actual cause of the error. > > The TypeError isn't new,
Really? That's not what your message said. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com