Setting `100` to `ord()` gets the error message only saying `string` but not saying `byte string`

[hyperkai]

Bug report

Bug description:

ord() accepts one character of a string or byte string as shown below:

print(ord('A'))  # string
print(ord(b'A')) # byte string
# 65

But setting 100 to ord() gets the error message only saying string but not saying byte string as shown below:

print(ord(100))
# Error

TypeError: ord() expected string of length 1, but int found

So, the error message should be like below:

TypeError: ord() expected string or byte string of length 1, but int found

CPython versions tested on:

3.12

Operating systems tested on:

Windows

[pochmann3]

Prior issue:

The error message of ord is not that right. It says 'ord() expected string of length 1'. I don't think in Py3.x string can refer to both bytes and unicodes.

Response:

This not the only place where "string" means unicode string or bytes string. I don't think this is large issue.

#71195 (comment)

[Hubert-Pastyrzak]

ord() also accepts a bytearray:

print(ord(bytearray(b'A')))

Maybe it would be a good idea to write this message like this: ord() expected string or bytes/bytearray object of length 1, but <type> found?

[skirpichev]

Closed as prior issue.

@hyperkai, devguide suggests to check for reported issues: https://devguide.python.org/triage/issue-tracker/#checking-if-a-bug-already-exists Please do this next time.