Issue #19164: Improve exception message of uuid.UUID()

berkerpeksag · berkerpeksag · commit 5f5cd6551eb1 · 2016-03-20T16:49:29.000+02:00
Patch by jgauthier.
diff --git a/Lib/uuid.py b/Lib/uuid.py
@@ -131,7 +131,8 @@ def __init__(self, hex=None, bytes=None, bytes_le=None, fields=None,
         """
 
         if [hex, bytes, bytes_le, fields, int].count(None) != 4:
-            raise TypeError('need one of hex, bytes, bytes_le, fields, or int')
+            raise TypeError('one of the hex, bytes, bytes_le, fields, '
+                            'or int arguments must be given')
         if hex is not None:
             hex = hex.replace('urn:', '').replace('uuid:', '')
             hex = hex.strip('{}').replace('-', '')
