Issue #7427: improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
diff --git a/Lib/httplib.py b/Lib/httplib.py
index c5e600c..43c8797 100644
--- a/Lib/httplib.py
+++ b/Lib/httplib.py
@@ -1236,6 +1236,8 @@
class BadStatusLine(HTTPException):
def __init__(self, line):
+ if not line:
+ line = repr(line)
self.args = line,
self.line = line
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_httplib.py b/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
index c0c12e7..107b904 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
@@ -91,6 +91,10 @@
resp = httplib.HTTPResponse(sock)
self.assertRaises(httplib.BadStatusLine, resp.begin)
+ def test_bad_status_repr(self):
+ exc = httplib.BadStatusLine('')
+ self.assertEquals(repr(exc), '''BadStatusLine("\'\'",)''')
+
def test_partial_reads(self):
# if we have a lenght, the system knows when to close itself
# same behaviour than when we read the whole thing with read()
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ee77d5d..715a346 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@
- Issue #1537721: Add a writeheader() method to csv.DictWriter.
+- Issue #7427: improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
+
Extension Modules
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