diff -r 652de09a3a1a Lib/uuid.py
--- a/Lib/uuid.py	Mon Nov 18 02:43:29 2013 +0100
+++ b/Lib/uuid.py	Sun Nov 17 18:46:50 2013 -0800
@@ -129,7 +129,8 @@
         """
 
         if [hex, bytes, bytes_le, fields, int].count(None) != 4:
-            raise TypeError('need one of hex, bytes, bytes_le, fields, or int')
+            raise TypeError('one of the hex, bytes, bytes_le, fields, '
+                            'or int arguments must be given')
         if hex is not None:
             hex = hex.replace('urn:', '').replace('uuid:', '')
             hex = hex.strip('{}').replace('-', '')