Follow-up to #6624. This issue changed a call to seterror() whose last argument is supposed to be NULL or a "custom error message" given by the ";message" format character.  This had two effects:

* the custom message (if present) is never printed
* the helpful "function() argument X " is omitted and only "must be str, not int" remains

>>> format(None, 1)     # current behavior
TypeError: must be str, not int
>>> format(None, 1)     # with #6624 reverted (= patch to this issue applied)
TypeError: format() argument 2 must be str, not int



Almost all uses of the ";" format code are currently broken: the strings must give a complete message, but only give a description of the expected arguments.  Most of them should probably just be removed.

The original commit doesn't contain any tests, so you should add some to be sure there's no regression in both directions (i.e. no regression for issue #6624 and for this issue):
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/83b46a5988b0/

Issue #6624 wasn't an issue, it should have been "closed-invalid" :)

But you're right, a test case is needed, see new patch.

Error message was fixed in issue26198.

>>> format(None, 1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: format() argument 2 must be str, not int