commit 11dbfd41957b3602d3adcbe24108b508c4a71356
author Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> Sun Mar 21 22:50:04 2010 +0000
committer Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> Sun Mar 21 22:50:04 2010 +0000
tree 13a432c8d79045b3aea5a1dab7c1f80d379c1f94
parent f61ff6d792c5490d5700651800a9ec733297acac

Merged revisions 78417 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r78417 | dirkjan.ochtman | 2010-02-23 22:49:00 -0600 (Tue, 23 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  Issue #7427: improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
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Lib/http/client.py

diff --git a/Lib/http/client.py b/Lib/http/client.py
index d35f245..b9246fd 100644
--- a/Lib/http/client.py
+++ b/Lib/http/client.py
@@ -1121,6 +1121,8 @@
 
 class BadStatusLine(HTTPException):
     def __init__(self, line):
+        if not line:
+            line = repr(line)
         self.args = line,
         self.line = line