[issue41478] Empty representation of AssertionError

[Irit Katriel]

Change by Irit Katriel :


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resolution:  -> not a bug
stage:  -> resolved
status: open -> closed

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[issue41478] Empty representation of AssertionError

[Terry J. Reedy]

Terry J. Reedy  added the comment:

Since you should print the exception class anyway, I think that using repr 
should be sufficient and that this issue should be closed.  In any case, the 
current behavior does not seem like a bug.

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[issue41478] Empty representation of AssertionError

[Terry J. Reedy]

Terry J. Reedy  added the comment:

Ilya, in the future, when responding by email, please delete the message you 
are responding to.  It is already present on the web page.

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[issue41478] Empty representation of AssertionError

[Ilya Kamenshchikov]

Ilya Kamenshchikov  added the comment:

Changing behavior and it's impact on existing code is, without a doubt, a
big deal here. Maybe it's a reason not to do anything about it.

Just to understand guiding design principle, what is expected from __str__
in more general case? I thought about it as "user-friendly string
representation", therefore expected an Exception without a message to
identify itself by it's class.

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On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 6:05 PM Rémi Lapeyre  wrote:

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> Rémi Lapeyre  added the comment:
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> > That's a solution, except you must know ahead of time this issue exists.
>
> If we changed str(e) to make it the same as repr(e), there would be no way
> to get only the message. str(e) returns the message so if the message given
> was empty (or no message was given) you get an empty string. This cannot be
> changed without breaking a lot of code.
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[issue41478] Empty representation of AssertionError

[Rémi Lapeyre]

Rémi Lapeyre  added the comment:

> That's a solution, except you must know ahead of time this issue exists.

If we changed str(e) to make it the same as repr(e), there would be no way to 
get only the message. str(e) returns the message so if the message given was 
empty (or no message was given) you get an empty string. This cannot be changed 
without breaking a lot of code.

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[issue41478] Empty representation of AssertionError

[Ilya Kamenshchikov]

Ilya Kamenshchikov  added the comment:

That's a solution, except you must know ahead of time this issue exists.

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On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 6:59 PM Rémi Lapeyre  wrote:

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> Rémi Lapeyre  added the comment:
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> Hi, can you not use its repr:
>
>
> >>> try: raise ValueError
> ... except Exception as e: print(f"Following happened: {e!r}")
> ...
> Following happened: ValueError()
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> ?
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[issue41478] Empty representation of AssertionError

[Rémi Lapeyre]

Rémi Lapeyre  added the comment:

Hi, can you not use its repr:


>>> try: raise ValueError
... except Exception as e: print(f"Following happened: {e!r}")
...
Following happened: ValueError()

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[issue41478] Empty representation of AssertionError

[Ilya Kamenshchikov]

New submission from Ilya Kamenshchikov :

I have a high level wrapper where I am catching expection and present  it  in 
(more) user-friendly format with a message. 


try:
raise ValueError
except Exception as e:
print(f"Following happened: {e}")

>>> prints "Following happened: "

Can an exception print it's class when it has no message?

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 374831
nosy: Ilya Kamenshchikov
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Empty representation of AssertionError
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.8

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