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Signed-off-by: Jade Abraham <[email protected]>

Author: jabraham17

util/chplenv/utils.py

@@ -48,18 +48,16 @@ def error(msg, exception=Exception):
         flush_warnings()
         raise exception(msg)
     else:
-        out = ['\nError: ', msg, '\n']
+        out = '\nError: {}\n'.format(msg)
         if ignore_errors:
-            sys.stderr.write(''.join(out))
+            sys.stderr.write(out)
         else:
             # flush warnings, print error, and exit
             # technically, there is no need to flush warnings here, but might as well
             flush_warnings()
-            sys.stderr.write(''.join(out))
+            sys.stderr.write(out)
             sys.exit(1)
 
-
-
 def memoize(func):
     """Function memoizing decorator"""
     cache = func.cache = {}