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Author terry.reedy
Recipients docs@python, eric.smith, py.user, r.david.murray, terry.reedy
Date 2012-01-21.05:56:23
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OK, the example of an empty format spec should be dropped. Let people figure it out ;-).

>>> format([], 'd')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: Unknown format code 'd' for object of type 'str'

One possibility is to give (str of) the object instead of the type:

ValueError: Unknown format code 'd' for object '[]'

The downside is a long message for long strings. It would need to be limited (as is done in test error reports).
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