[issue42118] TypeError gives wrong reserved name

2020-10-22 Thread Jason Schwefel
New submission from Jason Schwefel : The following code gives a "TypeError: 'str' object is not callable" exception: int = '' s = '3500:day' a = s.split(':') i = int(a[0]) Proper exception message should be "TypeError: 'int' object is not callable" Only able to

[issue42118] TypeError gives wrong reserved name

2020-10-22 Thread Jason Schwefel
Jason Schwefel added the comment: >What do you expect to gain with the "int = ''" statement? I did not expect anything. I made a mistake in my initial code and the error message indicated that I rebound 'str'. I could not find where I had used 'str' as a variable name. If it wo