diff --git a/Lib/test/test_generators.py b/Lib/test/test_generators.py
index ee36413..2b0d47d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_generators.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_generators.py
@@ -1681,7 +1681,7 @@
 >>> g.next()
 >>> del g
 >>> sys.stderr.getvalue().startswith(
-...     "Exception exceptions.RuntimeError: 'generator ignored GeneratorExit' in "
+...     "Exception RuntimeError: 'generator ignored GeneratorExit' in "
 ... )
 True
 >>> sys.stderr = old
@@ -1798,7 +1798,7 @@
 ...     del l
 ...     err = sys.stderr.getvalue().strip()
 ...     err.startswith(
-...         "Exception exceptions.RuntimeError: RuntimeError() in <"
+...         "Exception RuntimeError: RuntimeError() in <"
 ...     )
 ...     err.endswith("> ignored")
 ...     len(err.splitlines())
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 4428670..c60cf39 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
 Core and builtins
 -----------------
 
+- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before the name.
+  This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing exceptions.
+
 - Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to slot_nb_inplace_power.
 
 - PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.  Attempting to
diff --git a/Python/errors.c b/Python/errors.c
index f31f025..9a23c05 100644
--- a/Python/errors.c
+++ b/Python/errors.c
@@ -603,7 +603,8 @@
 				PyFile_WriteString("<unknown>", f);
 			else {
 				char* modstr = PyString_AsString(moduleName);
-				if (modstr)
+				if (modstr &&
+				    strcmp(modstr, "exceptions") != 0)
 				{
 					PyFile_WriteString(modstr, f);
 					PyFile_WriteString(".", f);