Nick Coghlan added the comment: Here's an example of the specific type errors raised by additional checks in the text-encoding specific methods. I believe the main improvement needed here is to mention the encoding name in the exception message:
"example".encode("rot_13") Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: encoder did not return a bytes object (type=str) b'BZh91AY&SY\xc1uvK\x00\x00\x01F\x80\x00\x10\x00"\x04\x00\x00\x10 \x000\xcd\x00\xc1\xa0P\xe2\xeeH\xa7\n\x12\x18.\xae\xc9`'.decode("bz2_codec") Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: decoder did not return a str object (type=bytes) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17828> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com