commit ffff1440d118cae189a6c2baf595dda52cdc7c3a
author Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> Sat Aug 02 01:30:37 2014 -0400
committer Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> Sat Aug 02 01:30:37 2014 -0400
tree e1664353a0276044933c16879fa59e7521a6044e
parent 7f9cc9359bdbcc877b2a6f976c8e8bdbc714ce90

Issue #22077: Improve index error messages for bytearrays, bytes, lists, and
tuples by adding 'or slices'. Added ', not <typename' for bytearrays.
Original patch by Claudiu Popa.

Objects/bytesobject.c

diff --git a/Objects/bytesobject.c b/Objects/bytesobject.c
index aff09cd..ca565eb 100644
--- a/Objects/bytesobject.c
+++ b/Objects/bytesobject.c
@@ -999,7 +999,7 @@
     }
     else {
         PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError,
-                     "byte indices must be integers, not %.200s",
+                     "byte indices must be integers or slices, not %.200s",
                      Py_TYPE(item)->tp_name);
         return NULL;
     }