> This backport checkin (Oct 5 2002) changed the exception text between
> 2.2.1:
>> >>> int(None)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> TypeError: object can't be converted to int
>> and 2.2.2 (last line):
>> >>> int(None)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> TypeError: int() argument must be a string or a number
>> Should this change have been backported to 2.2.2 from the 2.3
> codebase?
Clarifications of error messages is acceptable for bugfix releases.
Some error messages need more clarification than others, and you can
argue about this particular one, but I don't think you can rely on all
error messages remaining the same within bugfix releases.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
