diff Lib/traceback.py @ 61232:bb51e4bbff8c legacy-trunk

Issue #8313: traceback.format_exception_only() encodes unicode message to ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if str(value) failed
author Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>
date Wed, 05 May 2010 12:40:49 +0000
parents d5bf08c861a6
children b36cb4602e21
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--- a/Lib/traceback.py	Tue May 04 19:08:18 2010 +0000
+++ b/Lib/traceback.py	Wed May 05 12:40:49 2010 +0000
@@ -211,8 +211,14 @@
 def _some_str(value):
     try:
         return str(value)
-    except:
-        return '<unprintable %s object>' % type(value).__name__
+    except Exception:
+        pass
+    try:
+        value = unicode(value)
+        return value.encode("ascii", "backslashreplace")
+    except Exception:
+        pass
+    return '<unprintable %s object>' % type(value).__name__
 
 
 def print_exc(limit=None, file=None):