commit 849693989ade7304d9a112b01315ed3779ecdb0c
author Facundo Batista <facundobatista@gmail.com> Wed Aug 15 15:13:09 2007 +0000
committer Facundo Batista <facundobatista@gmail.com> Wed Aug 15 15:13:09 2007 +0000
tree c0b7ac377d4a0ced75231207abf7994a4d304370
parent 8ec7f656134b1230ab23003a94ba3266d7064122

When passed a bad formed literal to Decimal, now we have a
better error message, more descriptive. (bug #1770009)

Lib/decimal.py

diff --git a/Lib/decimal.py b/Lib/decimal.py
index f651935..7c67895 100644
--- a/Lib/decimal.py
+++ b/Lib/decimal.py
@@ -612,7 +612,8 @@
             except ValueError:
                 self._is_special = True
                 self._sign, self._int, self._exp = \
-                                        context._raise_error(ConversionSyntax)
+                              context._raise_error(ConversionSyntax,
+                                  "Invalid literal for Decimal: %r" % value)
             return self
 
         raise TypeError("Cannot convert %r to Decimal" % value)