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Author terry.reedy
Recipients ezio.melotti, mrabarnett, pitrou, serhiy.storchaka, steven.daprano, terry.reedy
Date 2014-09-12.22:07:15
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I prefer "cannot" for error messages. "Can't" is an informal version of "cannot", used in speech, dialog representing speech, and 'informal' writing.  It looks wrong to me in this context.
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