Message 64768 - Python tracker

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Raymond Hettinger
<report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
..
>  It would be *much* more useful to direct effort improving the mis-
>  reporting of the number of arguments given versus those required for
>  instance methods:
>    >>> a.f(1, 2)
>    TypeError: f() takes exactly 1 argument (3 given)

Please see issue2516.