Re: new style getargs format but argument is not a tuple

[Michael <mi...@st...>]

David Leonard wrote:
> 
> I've added a check now and will eventually commit it.  The error you
> would get after the patch would be:
> 
>   TypeError: ("expected a tuple", 2)
> 
> which would probably not help, unless you knew that MOD_REPLACE = 2.

It might be a better choice to check that the modify list parameter
is really a Python list object because most beginners will forget to
create a list containing the tuples.

The misleading exception

SystemError: new style getargs format but argument is not a tuple

is raised because of a tuple passed to the method instead of a list.

Ciao, Michael.