commit 07c6e7168919c275e47fa35c741413270d3d80fd
author Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> Fri Aug 24 13:05:09 2012 -0400
committer Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> Fri Aug 24 13:05:09 2012 -0400
tree 5dd658c5cf3b17902ddaf1c9dcc0c7d34dfeb6a6
parent 491b1dc79efd4d3fc39b0ded2cd3fd746154b882

Issue #15778: Coerce ImportError.args to a string when it isn't
already one.

Patch by Dave Malcolm.

Lib/test/test_exceptions.py

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py b/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py
index 0b1fd1b..55e9db3 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py
@@ -937,6 +937,11 @@
         self.assertEqual(exc.name, 'somename')
         self.assertEqual(exc.path, 'somepath')
 
+    def test_non_str_argument(self):
+        # Issue #15778
+        arg = b'abc'
+        exc = ImportError(arg)
+        self.assertEqual(str(arg), str(exc))
 
 
 def test_main():