diff --git a/Lib/urllib/request.py b/Lib/urllib/request.py
index b2a77ebf2fb..786055ef0b6 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib/request.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib/request.py
@@ -2294,7 +2294,7 @@ class ftpwrapper:
                 conn, retrlen = self.ftp.ntransfercmd(cmd)
             except ftplib.error_perm as reason:
                 if str(reason)[:3] != '550':
-                    raise URLError('ftp error: %d' % reason).with_traceback(
+                    raise URLError('ftp error: %r' % reason).with_traceback(
                         sys.exc_info()[2])
         if not conn:
             # Set transfer mode to ASCII!
@@ -2306,7 +2306,7 @@ class ftpwrapper:
                     try:
                         self.ftp.cwd(file)
                     except ftplib.error_perm as reason:
-                        raise URLError('ftp error: %d' % reason) from reason
+                        raise URLError('ftp error: %r' % reason) from reason
                 finally:
                     self.ftp.cwd(pwd)
                 cmd = 'LIST ' + file