From 26c6e3ee4c9032c6aee0161afa46edb9079a7857 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mauricio Villegas <5780272+mauvilsa@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 08:05:51 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] - Minor fix to readme. - Improve the writing of some
 messages.

---
 README.rst            | 2 --
 jsonargparse/_core.py | 8 ++++----
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 7c20f7d8..ffa598f1 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -305,9 +305,7 @@ create a parser object and then add arguments to it. A simple example would be:
     from jsonargparse import ArgumentParser
 
     parser = ArgumentParser(prog="app", description="Description for my app.")
-
     parser.add_argument("--opt1", type=int, default=0, help="Help for option 1.")
-
     parser.add_argument("--opt2", type=float, default=1.0, help="Help for option 2.")
 
 
diff --git a/jsonargparse/_core.py b/jsonargparse/_core.py
index e77ea7fd..6a7bc92a 100644
--- a/jsonargparse/_core.py
+++ b/jsonargparse/_core.py
@@ -1330,7 +1330,7 @@ def default_config_files(self, default_config_files: Optional[List[Union[str, os
         ):
             self._default_config_files = [os.fspath(d) for d in default_config_files]
         else:
-            raise ValueError("default_config_files has to be None or List[str | os.PathLike].")
+            raise ValueError("default_config_files expects None or List[str | os.PathLike].")
 
         if len(self._default_config_files) > 0:
             if not hasattr(self, "_default_config_files_group"):
@@ -1364,7 +1364,7 @@ def default_env(self, default_env: bool):
         elif isinstance(default_env, bool):
             self._default_env = default_env
         else:
-            raise ValueError("default_env has to be a boolean.")
+            raise ValueError("default_env expects a boolean.")
         if self._subcommands_action:
             for subparser in self._subcommands_action._name_parser_map.values():
                 subparser.default_env = self._default_env
@@ -1386,7 +1386,7 @@ def default_meta(self, default_meta: bool):
         if isinstance(default_meta, bool):
             self._default_meta = default_meta
         else:
-            raise ValueError("default_meta has to be a boolean.")
+            raise ValueError("default_meta expects a boolean.")
 
     @property
     def env_prefix(self) -> Union[bool, str]:
@@ -1413,7 +1413,7 @@ def env_prefix(self, env_prefix: Union[bool, str]):
         elif env_prefix is True:
             env_prefix = os.path.splitext(self.prog)[0]
         elif not isinstance(env_prefix, (bool, str)):
-            raise ValueError("env_prefix must be a string or a boolean.")
+            raise ValueError("env_prefix expects a string or a boolean.")
         self._env_prefix = env_prefix
 
     @property