On 16 November 2013 00:04, Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]> wrote: >> Rather than the more useful: >> >> >>> b"abcdef".decode("hex") >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> >> TypeError: 'hex' decoder returned 'bytes' instead of 'str'; use >> codecs.decode() to decode to arbitrary types > > I think this may be confusing. TypeError seems to suggest that the > parameter type sent by the user to the method is wrong, which is not > the actual cause of the error.
The TypeError isn't new, only the part after the semi-colon telling them that codecs.decode() doesn't include the typecheck (because it isn't constrained by the text model). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
