update ValueError message for wild card matching for remote files (#5851

) * update ValueError message for wild card matching * f string
pydata · Oct 11, 2021 · fecaa6a · fecaa6a
1 parent e3f52ea
commit fecaa6a
Showing 1 changed file with 3 additions and 4 deletions.
diff --git a/xarray/backends/api.py b/xarray/backends/api.py
@@ -859,10 +859,9 @@ def open_mfdataset(
             paths = [fs.get_mapper(path) for path in paths]
         elif is_remote_uri(paths):
             raise ValueError(
-                "cannot do wild-card matching for paths that are remote URLs: "
-                "{!r}. Instead, supply paths as an explicit list of strings.".format(
-                    paths
-                )
+                "cannot do wild-card matching for paths that are remote URLs "
+                f"unless engine='zarr' is specified. Got paths: {paths}. "
+                "Instead, supply paths as an explicit list of strings."
             )
         else:
             paths = sorted(glob(_normalize_path(paths)))