[sugar] Re: where to base?

[Dave Jones]

Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
>    raise ValueError("address must be a unicode string.")
> ValueError: address must be a unicode string.

In cases like these, I always raise the exception like:

if not isinstance(address, unicode):
     raise ValueError("address must be a unicode string, not %r" % address)

This tends to make tracebacks much more useful.

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