GeezerVison

On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 02:44:19AM -0500, Tim Peters wrote:
>So we should say "8-bit string" or "Unicode string" when *only* one of those
>is allowable.  So

OK... how about this patch?

Index: bltinmodule.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Python/bltinmodule.c,v
retrieving revision 2.185
diff -u -r2.185 bltinmodule.c
--- bltinmodule.c	2000/12/20 15:07:34	2.185
+++ bltinmodule.c	2000/12/21 18:36:54
@@ -1524,13 +1524,14 @@
 		}
 	} else {
 		PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError,
-			     "ord() expected string or Unicode character, " \
+			     "ord() expected string of length 1, but " \
 			     "%.200s found", obj->ob_type->tp_name);
 		return NULL;
 	}
 
 	PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError, 
-		     "ord() expected a character, length-%d string found",
+		     "ord() expected a character, "
+                     "but string of length %d found",
 		     size);
 	return NULL;
 }