From 0cabfec5e7279d6a449b1a71da063d710ce200ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Romano <paul.k.romano@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 09:46:58 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] A little error checking on Element.name

---
 openmc/element.py | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/openmc/element.py b/openmc/element.py
index 39564add4..66371aba9 100644
--- a/openmc/element.py
+++ b/openmc/element.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import sys
 
 import openmc
-from openmc.checkvalue import check_type
+from openmc.checkvalue import check_type, check_length
 from openmc.data import natural_abundance
 
 if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
@@ -99,7 +99,8 @@ class Element(object):
 
     @name.setter
     def name(self, name):
-        check_type('name', name, basestring)
+        check_type('element name', name, basestring)
+        check_length('element name', name, 1, 2)
         self._name = name
 
     @scattering.setter