Samuel Freilich <sfreil...@google.com> added the comment:
> The user already knows The example I link to in the initial description appears to be one case where the user does not in fact know. I do think context that this restriction applies to dict key in particular is very relevant. The line could use the same type for both the key and the value in a dict assignment, for example. > TypeError: unhashable type: 'dict'. Consider using an int, str, tuple, or > frozenset. That seems like a pretty reasonable wording, though I think mentioning "dictionary key" or "set item" specifically still helps. It could also link to the documentation directly: https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html#term-hashable Though other error messages don't generally follow that pattern. > Saying it twice doesn't help. As the comment you were responding to noted, putting it in the type implies there might be additional information in documentation (or at least provides a place in documentation to put that information). TypeError is too general to say something about that specifically: https://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html#TypeError ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue41114> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
