No, it's because the message speaks English, not Python, and in English we count starting from one. Users would be very confused you counted from zero here,

On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 02:24 Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:

I suspect it's because zip() is actually a class constructor, so
argument zero is self...
Paul

On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 10:10, Neil Girdhar <mistersheik@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm just curious, but is it usual for errors to be one-based rather than zero-based?  If I do zip(*iterables, strict=True), then "argument  1 is too long" refers to iterables[0]?
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> On Friday, May 1, 2020 at 2:20:12 PM UTC-4, Brandt Bucher wrote:
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>> I have pushed a first draft of PEP 618:
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>> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0618
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>> Please let me know what you think – I'd love to hear any *new* feedback that hasn't yet been addressed in the PEP!
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