[Python-3000] Changing function-related TypeErrors

[Guido van Rossum]

On 5/7/06, Collin Winter <collinw at gmail.com> wrote:
> This -- more intuitive error messages -- is really what I'm after, and
> while you may think of type of "def foo(a, b, c):..." as "a function
> with three required arguments", I'd wager that most Python
> programmers, if asked what type foo has, would say simply, "it's a
> function".

Then introducing a new exception isn't going to make a difference.
Feel free to submit a patch that improves the wording of the text of
the error messages.

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