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authorLaurin-Luis Lehning <65224843+e820@users.noreply.github.com>2021-03-07 23:25:39 +0100
committerXavier Claessens <xclaesse@gmail.com>2021-03-10 08:55:22 -0500
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Some documentation language adjustments & improved error messages
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diff --git a/mesonbuild/interpreterbase.py b/mesonbuild/interpreterbase.py
index 01bfdaa..ec6ddc8 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/interpreterbase.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/interpreterbase.py
@@ -937,7 +937,8 @@ The result of this is undefined and will become a hard error in a future Meson r
try:
val = self.variables[var]
if not isinstance(val, (str, int, float, bool)):
- raise InvalidCode(f'Identifier "{var}" does not name a formattable variable.')
+ raise InvalidCode(f'Identifier "{var}" does not name a formattable variable ' +
+ '(has to be an integer, a string, a floating point number or a boolean).')
return str(val)
except KeyError: