[Python-checkins] r78746 - python/trunk/Python/ceval.c

[benjamin.peterson]

Author: benjamin.peterson
Date: Sun Mar  7 01:00:37 2010
New Revision: 78746

Log:
more specific exception for wrong kind of raise #8082

Modified:
   python/trunk/Python/ceval.c

Modified: python/trunk/Python/ceval.c
==============================================================================
--- python/trunk/Python/ceval.c	(original)
+++ python/trunk/Python/ceval.c	Sun Mar  7 01:00:37 2010
@@ -3539,8 +3539,9 @@
 		/* Not something you can raise.  You get an exception
 		   anyway, just not what you specified :-) */
 		PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError,
-			"exceptions must be classes or instances, not %s",
-			type->ob_type->tp_name);
+			     "exceptions must be old-style classes or "
+			     "derived from BaseException, not %s",
+			     type->ob_type->tp_name);
 		goto raise_error;
 	}