[Python-Dev] Uninformative error message about subclassing (original) (raw)

Edward C. Jones edcjones at erols.com
Mon May 31 10:13:33 EDT 2004


Here are two small python files:


a.py:

class A(object): pass


b.py:

import a

class B(a): pass

If I run "python b.py" I get the uninformative error message:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "./b.py", line 5, in ? class B(a): TypeError: function takes at most 2 arguments (3 given)

I think the message should say that "a" is not a class.



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