#7539: use _saferepr() for printing exceptions from pdb.
diff --git a/Lib/pdb.py b/Lib/pdb.py
index 0751c17..79a36a6 100755
--- a/Lib/pdb.py
+++ b/Lib/pdb.py
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@
if type(t) == type(''):
exc_type_name = t
else: exc_type_name = t.__name__
- print >>self.stdout, '***', exc_type_name + ':', v
+ print >>self.stdout, '***', exc_type_name + ':', _saferepr(v)
def precmd(self, line):
"""Handle alias expansion and ';;' separator."""
@@ -753,7 +753,7 @@
if isinstance(t, str):
exc_type_name = t
else: exc_type_name = t.__name__
- print >>self.stdout, '***', exc_type_name + ':', repr(v)
+ print >>self.stdout, '***', exc_type_name + ':', _saferepr(v)
raise
def do_p(self, arg):