Nick Coghlan added the comment: Yes, if you pass "string" when you meant to pass ["string"], you will often get awful error messages.
This is one of the downsides of strings being iterable, but we're not going to add "if isinstance(obj, str): throw TypeError(msg)" special cases everywhere to address it. It's definitely a wart in Python, but it's one Python developers just have to get used to (and learn to suspect whenever they see a single-character string in an error message). ---------- nosy: +ncoghlan resolution: -> wont fix status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16566> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
