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Author	asvetlov
Recipients	asvetlov, ezio.melotti, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, terry.reedy
Date	2014-05-03.12:32:58
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Ok. I agree with Teddy but Raymond's arguments make a value also. Thus we need to make any decision and close the issue (and bunch of similar issues). On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Terry J. Reedy <report@bugs.python.org> wrote: > > Terry J. Reedy added the comment: > > The generic error message for the first is 'False is not true'. Clear but useless. The error message for the second is the more specific '<representation of object)> is not None'. Since the expression was supposed to evaluate to None, but did not, it would be helpful to me, at least, to know what it did evaluate to. > > ---------- > > _______________________________________ > Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> > <http://bugs.python.org/issue20544> > _______________________________________

Ok. I agree with Teddy but Raymond's arguments make a value also.
Thus we need to make any decision and close the issue (and bunch of
similar issues).

On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Terry J. Reedy <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
>
> Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
>
> The generic error message for the first is 'False is not true'. Clear but useless. The error message for the second is the more specific '<representation of object)> is not None'. Since the expression was supposed to evaluate to None, but did not, it would be helpful to me, at least, to know what it did evaluate to.
>
> ----------
>
> _______________________________________
> Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org>
> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20544>
> _______________________________________

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Date	User	Action	Args
2014-05-03 12:32:59	asvetlov	set	recipients: + asvetlov, rhettinger, terry.reedy, ezio.melotti, serhiy.storchaka
2014-05-03 12:32:59	asvetlov	link	issue20544 messages
2014-05-03 12:32:58	asvetlov	create