From 6754d52521f597caf3adae1b59d8d8bfbc18fbce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:31:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] get_payload(): Improve the TypeError message when the payload
 isn't of the expected type.  In response to SF #751451.

---
 Lib/email/Message.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/email/Message.py b/Lib/email/Message.py
index 0f513f54985..6dfa84b4468 100644
--- a/Lib/email/Message.py
+++ b/Lib/email/Message.py
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ class Message:
         if i is None:
             payload = self._payload
         elif not isinstance(self._payload, ListType):
-            raise TypeError, i
+            raise TypeError, 'Expected list, got %s' % type(self._payload)
         else:
             payload = self._payload[i]
         if decode: