#14897: Enhance error messages of struct.pack and struct.pack_into

Patch by Matti Mäki.

Misc/ACKS

@@ -820,6 +820,7 @@ Michael Muller
 Neil Muller
 Louis Munro
 R. David Murray
+Matti Mäki
 Dale Nagata
 John Nagle
 Takahiro Nakayama

Misc/NEWS

@@ -62,6 +62,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #14897: Enhance error messages of struct.pack and
+  struct.pack_into. Patch by Matti Mäki.
+
 - Issue #16316: mimetypes now recognizes the .xz and .txz (.tar.xz) extensions.
   Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
 

Modules/_struct.c

@@ -1661,7 +1661,7 @@ s_pack(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
     if (PyTuple_GET_SIZE(args) != soself->s_len)
     {
         PyErr_Format(StructError,
-            "pack requires exactly %zd arguments", soself->s_len);
+            "pack expected %zd items for packing (got %zd)", soself->s_len, PyTuple_GET_SIZE(args));
         return NULL;
     }
 
@@ -1700,9 +1700,19 @@ s_pack_into(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
     assert(soself->s_codes != NULL);
     if (PyTuple_GET_SIZE(args) != (soself->s_len + 2))
     {
-        PyErr_Format(StructError,
-                     "pack_into requires exactly %zd arguments",
-                     (soself->s_len + 2));
+        if (PyTuple_GET_SIZE(args) == 0) {
+            PyErr_Format(StructError,
+                        "pack_into expected buffer argument");
+        }
+        else if (PyTuple_GET_SIZE(args) == 1) {
+            PyErr_Format(StructError,
+                        "pack_into expected offset argument");
+        }
+        else {
+            PyErr_Format(StructError,
+                        "pack_into expected %zd items for packing (got %zd)",
+                        soself->s_len, (PyTuple_GET_SIZE(args) - 2));
+        }
         return NULL;
     }