#6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are accepted too.
diff --git a/Objects/bytearrayobject.c b/Objects/bytearrayobject.c
index 6fc229d..27affb5 100644
--- a/Objects/bytearrayobject.c
+++ b/Objects/bytearrayobject.c
@@ -1281,7 +1281,7 @@
 Return True if B starts with the specified prefix, False otherwise.\n\
 With optional start, test B beginning at that position.\n\
 With optional end, stop comparing B at that position.\n\
-prefix can also be a tuple of strings to try.");
+prefix can also be a tuple of bytes to try.");
 
 static PyObject *
 bytearray_startswith(PyByteArrayObject *self, PyObject *args)
@@ -1308,8 +1308,12 @@
         Py_RETURN_FALSE;
     }
     result = _bytearray_tailmatch(self, subobj, start, end, -1);
-    if (result == -1)
+    if (result == -1) {
+        if (PyErr_ExceptionMatches(PyExc_TypeError))
+            PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError, "startswith first arg must be bytes "
+                         "or a tuple of bytes, not %s", Py_TYPE(subobj)->tp_name);
         return NULL;
+    }
     else
         return PyBool_FromLong(result);
 }
@@ -1320,7 +1324,7 @@
 Return True if B ends with the specified suffix, False otherwise.\n\
 With optional start, test B beginning at that position.\n\
 With optional end, stop comparing B at that position.\n\
-suffix can also be a tuple of strings to try.");
+suffix can also be a tuple of bytes to try.");
 
 static PyObject *
 bytearray_endswith(PyByteArrayObject *self, PyObject *args)
@@ -1347,8 +1351,12 @@
         Py_RETURN_FALSE;
     }
     result = _bytearray_tailmatch(self, subobj, start, end, +1);
-    if (result == -1)
+    if (result == -1) {
+        if (PyErr_ExceptionMatches(PyExc_TypeError))
+            PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError, "endswith first arg must be bytes or "
+                         "a tuple of bytes, not %s", Py_TYPE(subobj)->tp_name);
         return NULL;
+    }
     else
         return PyBool_FromLong(result);
 }
diff --git a/Objects/bytesobject.c b/Objects/bytesobject.c
index 616f390..f2ee131 100644
--- a/Objects/bytesobject.c
+++ b/Objects/bytesobject.c
@@ -2654,8 +2654,12 @@
         Py_RETURN_FALSE;
     }
     result = _bytes_tailmatch(self, subobj, start, end, -1);
-    if (result == -1)
+    if (result == -1) {
+        if (PyErr_ExceptionMatches(PyExc_TypeError))
+            PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError, "startswith first arg must be bytes "
+                         "or a tuple of bytes, not %s", Py_TYPE(subobj)->tp_name);
         return NULL;
+    }
     else
         return PyBool_FromLong(result);
 }
@@ -2694,8 +2698,12 @@
         Py_RETURN_FALSE;
     }
     result = _bytes_tailmatch(self, subobj, start, end, +1);
-    if (result == -1)
+    if (result == -1) {
+        if (PyErr_ExceptionMatches(PyExc_TypeError))
+            PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError, "endswith first arg must be bytes or "
+                         "a tuple of bytes, not %s", Py_TYPE(subobj)->tp_name);
         return NULL;
+    }
     else
         return PyBool_FromLong(result);
 }
diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index 877640d..2cdbc0e 100644
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -1554,7 +1554,7 @@
         arg = PyUnicode_FromObject(arg);
         if (!arg)
             return 0;
-        output = PyUnicode_AsEncodedObject(arg, 
+        output = PyUnicode_AsEncodedObject(arg,
                                            Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding,
                                            "surrogateescape");
         Py_DECREF(arg);
@@ -1569,7 +1569,7 @@
     if (PyBytes_Check(output)) {
          size = PyBytes_GET_SIZE(output);
          data = PyBytes_AS_STRING(output);
-    } 
+    }
     else {
          size = PyByteArray_GET_SIZE(output);
          data = PyByteArray_AS_STRING(output);
@@ -2148,7 +2148,7 @@
        illegal prefix.  See RFC 3629 for details */
     1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, /* 00-0F */
     1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
-    1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 
+    1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
     1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
     1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
     1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
@@ -2631,7 +2631,7 @@
 #endif
     PyObject *errorHandler = NULL;
     PyObject *exc = NULL;
-    
+
     q = (unsigned char *)s;
     e = q + size;
 
@@ -8743,8 +8743,12 @@
         Py_RETURN_FALSE;
     }
     substring = (PyUnicodeObject *)PyUnicode_FromObject(subobj);
-    if (substring == NULL)
+    if (substring == NULL) {
+        if (PyErr_ExceptionMatches(PyExc_TypeError))
+            PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError, "startswith first arg must be str or "
+                         "a tuple of str, not %s", Py_TYPE(subobj)->tp_name);
         return NULL;
+    }
     result = tailmatch(self, substring, start, end, -1);
     Py_DECREF(substring);
     return PyBool_FromLong(result);
@@ -8787,9 +8791,12 @@
         Py_RETURN_FALSE;
     }
     substring = (PyUnicodeObject *)PyUnicode_FromObject(subobj);
-    if (substring == NULL)
+    if (substring == NULL) {
+        if (PyErr_ExceptionMatches(PyExc_TypeError))
+            PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError, "endswith first arg must be str or "
+                         "a tuple of str, not %s", Py_TYPE(subobj)->tp_name);
         return NULL;
-
+    }
     result = tailmatch(self, substring, start, end, +1);
     Py_DECREF(substring);
     return PyBool_FromLong(result);