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Author serhiy.storchaka
Recipients Anthony Sottile, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka
Date 2017-09-22.06:26:33
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Message-id <1506061593.47.0.497142353818.issue31550@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I'm not sure that this is an enhancement. It makes an error message inconsistent with other error messages.

>>> class I(int): pass
... 
>>> I()[0]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'I' object does not support indexing
>>> 0[0] = 0
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'int' object does not support item assignment
>>> del 0[0]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'int' object does not support item deletion
>>> ''['']                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
Traceback (most recent call last):                                                                                                                                                                                                           
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>                                                                                                                                                                                                        
TypeError: string indices must be integers, not str                                                                                                                                                                                          
>>> iter(0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'int' object is not iterable
>>> reversed(0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: argument to reversed() must be a sequence
>>> next(0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: int object is not an iterator
>>> {}[[]]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: unhashable type: 'list'

And actually this message is misleading. An attribute '__getitem__' is not looked up on objects.

>>> class I(int): pass
... 
>>> x = I()
>>> x.__getitem__ = lambda *args: None
>>> I()[0:]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'I' object has no attribute '__getitem__'
>>> x.__getitem__
<function <lambda> at 0x7f11b62dd648>
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Date User Action Args
2017-09-22 06:26:33serhiy.storchakasetrecipients: + serhiy.storchaka, rhettinger, Anthony Sottile
2017-09-22 06:26:33serhiy.storchakasetmessageid: <1506061593.47.0.497142353818.issue31550@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2017-09-22 06:26:33serhiy.storchakalinkissue31550 messages
2017-09-22 06:26:33serhiy.storchakacreate