Message 69651 - Python tracker

➜

This issue tracker has been migrated to GitHub, and is currently read-only.
For more information, see the GitHub FAQs in the Python's Developer Guide.

Author	cito
Recipients	cito
Date	2008-07-14.12:53:22
SpamBayes Score	0.06537337
Marked as misclassified	No
Message-id	<[email protected]>
In-reply-to

Content
When you sort a list with list.sort() or sorted(list), and set the reverse parameter to None, then you get the following misleading error message: TypeError: an integer is required I would expect a more proper error message for the reverse parameter, such as "reverse must be a boolean", and maybe reverse=None also accepted as default value, i.e. False.

When you sort a list with list.sort() or sorted(list), and set the
reverse parameter to None, then you get the following misleading error
message:

    TypeError: an integer is required

I would expect a more proper error message for the reverse parameter,
such as "reverse must be a boolean", and maybe reverse=None also
accepted as default value, i.e. False.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2008-07-14 12:54:24	cito	set	spambayes_score: 0.0653734 -> 0.06537337 recipients: + cito
2008-07-14 12:54:23	cito	set	spambayes_score: 0.0653734 -> 0.0653734 messageid: <[email protected]>
2008-07-14 12:53:23	cito	link	issue3354 messages
2008-07-14 12:53:22	cito	create