ERR: Better error message for MultiIndex.astype (#37016)

pandas-dev · Oct 10, 2020 · c8aea2c · c8aea2c
1 parent 846cff9
commit c8aea2c
Showing 1 changed file with 2 additions and 2 deletions.
diff --git a/pandas/core/indexes/multi.py b/pandas/core/indexes/multi.py
@@ -3606,8 +3606,8 @@ def astype(self, dtype, copy=True):
             raise NotImplementedError(msg)
         elif not is_object_dtype(dtype):
             raise TypeError(
-                f"Setting {type(self)} dtype to anything other "
-                "than object is not supported"
+                "Setting a MultiIndex dtype to anything other than object "
+                "is not supported"
             )
         elif copy is True:
             return self._shallow_copy()