gh-114091: Reword error message for unawaitable types

Lib/test/test_asyncio/test_locks.py

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ async def test_lock(self):
 
         with self.assertRaisesRegex(
             TypeError,
-            "object Lock can't be used in 'await' expression"
+            "'Lock' object can't be awaited"
         ):
             await lock
 
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ async def test_lock_by_with_statement(self):
             self.assertFalse(lock.locked())
             with self.assertRaisesRegex(
                 TypeError,
-                r"object \w+ can't be used in 'await' expression"
+                r"'\w+' object can't be awaited"
             ):
                 with await lock:
                     pass
@@ -941,7 +941,7 @@ async def test_semaphore(self):
 
         with self.assertRaisesRegex(
             TypeError,
-            "object Semaphore can't be used in 'await' expression",
+            "'Semaphore' object can't be awaited",
         ):
             await sem
 
@@ -1270,7 +1270,7 @@ async def test_barrier(self):
         self.assertIn("filling", repr(barrier))
         with self.assertRaisesRegex(
             TypeError,
-            "object Barrier can't be used in 'await' expression",
+            "'Barrier' object can't be awaited",
         ):
             await barrier
 

Lib/test/test_asyncio/test_pep492.py

@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ async def test(lock):
             self.assertFalse(lock.locked())
             with self.assertRaisesRegex(
                 TypeError,
-                "can't be used in 'await' expression"
+                "can't be awaited"
             ):
                 with await lock:
                     pass

Lib/test/test_coroutines.py

@@ -974,13 +974,13 @@ def test_await_1(self):
 
         async def foo():
             await 1
-        with self.assertRaisesRegex(TypeError, "object int can.t.*await"):
+        with self.assertRaisesRegex(TypeError, "'int' object can.t be awaited"):
             run_async(foo())
 
     def test_await_2(self):
         async def foo():
             await []
-        with self.assertRaisesRegex(TypeError, "object list can.t.*await"):
+        with self.assertRaisesRegex(TypeError, "'list' object can.t be awaited"):
             run_async(foo())
 
     def test_await_3(self):
@@ -1040,7 +1040,7 @@ class Awaitable:
         async def foo(): return await Awaitable()
 
         with self.assertRaisesRegex(
-            TypeError, "object Awaitable can't be used in 'await' expression"):
+            TypeError, "'Awaitable' object can't be awaited"):
 
             run_async(foo())
 

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2024-01-15-21-51-26.gh-issue-114091.VOtSJl.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Changed the error message for awaiting something that can't be awaited from "object <type> can't be used in an await expression" to "'<type>' object can't be awaited".

Objects/genobject.c

@@ -1047,7 +1047,7 @@ _PyCoro_GetAwaitableIter(PyObject *o)
     }
 
     PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError,
-                 "object %.100s can't be used in 'await' expression",
+                 "'%.100s' object can't be awaited",
                  ot->tp_name);
     return NULL;
 }