commit 225a099fe500f4c3577b60ca657eb93a0cd1c735
author Michael Foord <fuzzyman@voidspace.org.uk> Thu Feb 18 20:30:09 2010 +0000
committer Michael Foord <fuzzyman@voidspace.org.uk> Thu Feb 18 20:30:09 2010 +0000
tree f02998dee2a1831460a301afcbb42d77f5f6704e
parent 456e1652cf63dfbd3b1d0af81af9582d204ddd02

unittest.TestCase uses safe_repr for producing failure messages. Partial fix for issue 7956

Lib/unittest/util.py

diff --git a/Lib/unittest/util.py b/Lib/unittest/util.py
index 2546e20..9fce625 100644
--- a/Lib/unittest/util.py
+++ b/Lib/unittest/util.py
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 """Various utility functions."""
 
+def safe_repr(obj):
+    try:
+        return repr(obj)
+    except Exception:
+        return object.__repr__(obj)
+
 def strclass(cls):
     return "%s.%s" % (cls.__module__, cls.__name__)