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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

@@ -1121,6 +1121,8 @@ class ResponseNotReady(ImproperConnectionState):
 
 class BadStatusLine(HTTPException):
     def __init__(self, line):
+        if not line:
+            line = repr(line)
         self.args = line,
         self.line = line
 

Lib/test/test_httplib.py

@@ -106,6 +106,10 @@ class BasicTest(TestCase):
         resp = client.HTTPResponse(sock)
         self.assertRaises(client.BadStatusLine, resp.begin)
 
+    def test_bad_status_repr(self):
+        exc = client.BadStatusLine('')
+        self.assertEquals(repr(exc), '''BadStatusLine("\'\'",)''')
+
     def test_partial_reads(self):
         # if we have a lenght, the system knows when to close itself
         # same behaviour than when we read the whole thing with read()