[issue11494] Confusing error message from warnings.warn

Brett Cannon added the comment: I'm not crazy about the idea of adding an inspect.isclass() check simply to clear up this rare error message. It's still decipherable what the problem is from the issubclass() message. Closing as "won't fix". -- resolution: -> wont fix status: open ->

[issue11494] Confusing error message from warnings.warn

Changes by Éric Araujo : -- nosy: +brett.cannon versions: +Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-l

[issue11494] Confusing error message from warnings.warn

New submission from Gerrit Holl : When accidentally passing a string to warnings.warn where one should pass a Warning-class, the error message is rather confusing: $ ./python Python 2.7.1+ (release27-maint:88766, Mar 8 2011, 16:51:59) [GCC 4.4.5] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "cred