Author: Antonio Cuni <[email protected]>
Branch: 
Changeset: r56161:1fe32e3752e0
Date: 2012-07-18 16:13 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/1fe32e3752e0/

Log:    improve the error message in case float(mystring) fails

diff --git a/pypy/objspace/std/strutil.py b/pypy/objspace/std/strutil.py
--- a/pypy/objspace/std/strutil.py
+++ b/pypy/objspace/std/strutil.py
@@ -185,4 +185,4 @@
     try:
         return rstring_to_float(s)
     except ValueError:
-        raise ParseStringError("invalid literal for float()")
+        raise ParseStringError("invalid literal for float(): '%s'" % s)
diff --git a/pypy/objspace/std/test/test_floatobject.py 
b/pypy/objspace/std/test/test_floatobject.py
--- a/pypy/objspace/std/test/test_floatobject.py
+++ b/pypy/objspace/std/test/test_floatobject.py
@@ -441,6 +441,13 @@
         b = A(5).real
         assert type(b) is float
 
+    def test_invalid_literal_message(self):
+        try:
+            float('abcdef')
+        except ValueError, e:
+            assert 'abcdef' in e.message
+        else:
+            assert False, 'did not raise'
 
 class AppTestFloatHex:
     def w_identical(self, x, y):
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