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r78746 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-03-06 18:00:37 -0600 (Sat, 06 Mar 2010) | 1 line
more specific exception for wrong kind of raise #8082
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diff --git a/Python/ceval.c b/Python/ceval.c
index f72fe4a..6dd370f 100644
--- a/Python/ceval.c
+++ b/Python/ceval.c
@@ -3260,8 +3260,9 @@
/* 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;
}