From 08a92cb56874537b88a224e9fcd6a3d89a5a703b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 21:14:25 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Jeremy writes:

I found the following patch helpful in tracking down a bug in some
code.  I had appended time, the module, instead of time.time().  Not
sure if it is generally true that printing the repr of the object is
good, but I expect that most unpicklable things will have fairly
information and concise reprs (like files or sockets or modules).
---
 Lib/pickle.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/pickle.py b/Lib/pickle.py
index 7164eb1e395..5cc92bf9d0d 100644
--- a/Lib/pickle.py
+++ b/Lib/pickle.py
@@ -157,7 +157,8 @@ class Pickler:
                     reduce = object.__reduce__
                 except AttributeError:
                     raise PicklingError, \
-                        "can't pickle %s objects" % `t.__name__`
+                        "can't pickle %s object: %s" % (`t.__name__`,
+                                                         `object`)
                 else:
                     tup = reduce()
             else: