update

Author: jswhit

netCDF4/utils.py

@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ def _StartCountStride(elem, shape, dimensions=None, grp=None, datashape=None,\
                     else:
                         length = e.start+datashape[i]
                 except IndexError:
-                    raise IndexError("Illegal slice")
+                    raise IndexError("shape of data does not conform to slice")
             else:
                 if unlim and datashape == () and len(dim) == 0:
                     # writing scalar along unlimited dimension using slicing