better error message

Snarfza · Oct 2, 2013 · 0494f68 · 0494f68
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commit 0494f68
Showing 1 changed file with 4 additions and 2 deletions.
diff --git a/theano/sandbox/rng_mrg.py b/theano/sandbox/rng_mrg.py
@@ -749,8 +749,10 @@ def uniform(self, size, low=0.0, high=1.0, ndim=None, dtype=None,
                     size)
 
         else:
-            msg = "size must be a tuple of int or a Theano variable"
-            assert isinstance(size, Variable) and size.ndim == 1, msg
+            if not (isinstance(size, Variable) and size.ndim == 1):
+                raise TypeError("size must be a tuple of int or a Theano "
+                        "Variable with 1 dimension, got " + str(size) +
+                        " of type " + str(type(size)))
 
         if nstreams is None:
             nstreams = self.n_streams(size)