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Author dmalcolm
Recipients brett.cannon, dmalcolm
Date 2012-08-24.16:38:44
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In Python 3.2 and earlier:
>>> str(ImportError(b'foo'))
"b'foo'"

In Python 3.3:
>>> str(ImportError(b'foo'))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: __str__ returned non-string (type bytes)

This appears to be due to commit 76272.

I'm attaching a patch which fixes it, though perhaps ImportError should type-check the arguments

Motivation:
This leads to a failure of the test suite for "docutils" when run under Python 3.3 betas, specifically:

======================================================================
ERROR: test_unicode (test_error_reporting.ErrorStringTests)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/david/coding/python3.3/docutils/trunk/docutils/test3/test_error_reporting.py", line 154, in test_unicode
str(ErrorString(ImportError(self.bs))))
File "/home/david/coding/python3.3/docutils/trunk/docutils/build/lib/docutils/utils/error_reporting.py", line 124, in __str__
super(ErrorString, self).__str__())
File "/home/david/coding/python3.3/docutils/trunk/docutils/build/lib/docutils/utils/error_reporting.py", line 74, in __str__
return str(self.data)
TypeError: __str__ returned non-string (type bytes)

See http://docutils.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/docutils/trunk/docutils/test/test_error_reporting.py?revision=7464&view=markup for the test code.  Arguably docutils could just pick a different exception subclass.
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